Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
JOHN MUIRAnd into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
More John Muir Quotes
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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.
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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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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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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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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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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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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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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.
JOHN MUIR