This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
JOHN MUIRWho wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
More John Muir Quotes
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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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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.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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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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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 MUIR