Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
JOHN MUIR
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.
More John Muir Quotes
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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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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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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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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.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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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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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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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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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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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!
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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.
JOHN MUIR