There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
JOHN MUIRNot blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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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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As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
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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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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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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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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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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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