In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
JOHN MUIRLearn to live like the wild animals
More John Muir Quotes
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The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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