When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
JOHN MUIRWe were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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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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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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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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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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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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Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
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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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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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