Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
JOHN MUIRThe deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
More John Muir Quotes
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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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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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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Take me into the mountains.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
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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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As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
JOHN MUIR