When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
JOHN MUIRIn the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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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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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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Going to the woods is going home.
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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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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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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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I never saw a discontented tree.
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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