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 MUIRThe clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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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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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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