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.
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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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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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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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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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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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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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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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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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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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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