The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
JOHN MUIRBut we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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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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So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
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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.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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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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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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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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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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