The 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.
JOHN MUIRYet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
More John Muir Quotes
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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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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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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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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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 God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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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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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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