There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
JOHN MUIRHow glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
More John Muir Quotes
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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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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The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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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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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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