The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
JOHN MUIREverything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
More John Muir Quotes
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Going to the woods is going home.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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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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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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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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Take me into the mountains.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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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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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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