Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
JOHN MUIRI never saw a discontented tree.
More John Muir Quotes
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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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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.
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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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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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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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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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Wander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
JOHN MUIR