I never saw a discontented tree.
JOHN MUIRAnyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
More John Muir Quotes
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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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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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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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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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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