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.
JOHN MUIRSpring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
More John Muir Quotes
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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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 age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
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