God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
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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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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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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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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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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Take me into the mountains.
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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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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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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.
JOHN MUIR