In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
JOHN MUIRThe soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
More John Muir Quotes
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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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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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I never saw a discontented tree.
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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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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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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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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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