God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
JOHN MUIRAll the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
More John Muir Quotes
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Going to the woods is going home.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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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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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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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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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.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
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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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The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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Take me into the mountains.
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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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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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