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.
JOHN MUIRWho wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
More John Muir Quotes
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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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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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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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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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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