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 MUIRClimb the mountains and get their good tidings.
More John Muir Quotes
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Wildness is a necessity.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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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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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
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Take me into the mountains.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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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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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
JOHN MUIR






