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 MUIROne should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
More John Muir Quotes
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So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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I 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.
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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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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
JOHN MUIR