On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
JOHN MUIRBetween every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
More John Muir Quotes
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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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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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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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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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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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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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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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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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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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.
JOHN MUIR






