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.
JOHN MUIRWhen we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
More John Muir Quotes
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Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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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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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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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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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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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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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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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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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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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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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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