In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
JOHN MUIRHidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
More John Muir Quotes
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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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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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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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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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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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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