I never saw a discontented tree.
JOHN MUIRYet 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.
More John Muir Quotes
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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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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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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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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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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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