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.
JOHN MUIREvery hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
More John Muir Quotes
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
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As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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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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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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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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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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