Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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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.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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