Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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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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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
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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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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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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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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
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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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