I never saw a discontented tree.
JOHN MUIRNature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
More John Muir Quotes
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Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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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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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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Wander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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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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