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 MUIRI only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
More John Muir Quotes
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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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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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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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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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
JOHN MUIR