This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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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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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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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 care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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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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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
JOHN MUIR