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.
JOHN MUIRI never saw a discontented tree.
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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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
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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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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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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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Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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