On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
JOHN MUIRWhat a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
More John Muir Quotes
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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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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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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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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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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What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
JOHN MUIR