The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
JOHN MUIRBut it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
More John Muir Quotes
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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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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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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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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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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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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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.
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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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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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