The sun shines not on us but in us.
JOHN MUIRThe 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.
More John Muir Quotes
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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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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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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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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Going to the woods is going home.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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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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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
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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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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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