Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
JOHN MUIRFew places in this world are more dangerous than home.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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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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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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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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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
JOHN MUIR