There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
JOHN MUIRThe world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
More John Muir Quotes
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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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.
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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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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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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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