Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
JOHN MUIRGo where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
More John Muir Quotes
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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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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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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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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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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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.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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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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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
JOHN MUIR






