In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
JOHN MUIRGod has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
More John Muir Quotes
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The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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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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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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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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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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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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Going to the mountains is going home.
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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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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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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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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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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
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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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Going to the woods is going home.
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