So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
JOHN MUIRYet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
More John Muir Quotes
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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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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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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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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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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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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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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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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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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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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