Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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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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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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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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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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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.
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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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