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.
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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Wildness is a necessity.
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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
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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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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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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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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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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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