Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
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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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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No synonym for God is so perfect as 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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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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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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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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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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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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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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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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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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