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 MUIRWhen one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
More John Muir Quotes
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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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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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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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Wander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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