If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
JOHN MUIRI 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.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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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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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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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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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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Take me into the mountains.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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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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