Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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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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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If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
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At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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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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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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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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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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