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.
JOHN MUIRThe 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.
More John Muir Quotes
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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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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Going to the woods is going home.
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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.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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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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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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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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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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