There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
JOHN MUIRCome to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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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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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
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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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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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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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