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 MUIRThere is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
More John Muir Quotes
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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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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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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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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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
JOHN MUIR