On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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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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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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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Wander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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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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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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