If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
JOHN MUIRThe world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
More John Muir Quotes
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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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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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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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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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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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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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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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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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