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 MUIROn no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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I never saw a discontented tree.
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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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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.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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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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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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