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.
JOHN MUIRHidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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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Learn to live like the wild animals
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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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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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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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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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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