Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
JOHN MUIREverything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
More John Muir Quotes
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I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
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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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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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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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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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Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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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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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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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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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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