In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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Take me into the mountains.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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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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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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