God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
JOHN MUIRI ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
More John Muir Quotes
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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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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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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Wander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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Take me into the mountains.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
JOHN MUIR