This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
JOHN MUIRYet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
More John Muir Quotes
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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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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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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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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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