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 MUIRAnd into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
More John Muir Quotes
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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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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Going to the mountains is going home.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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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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