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.
JOHN MUIRLearn to live like the wild animals
More John Muir Quotes
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So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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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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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 clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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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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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
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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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Learn to live like the wild animals
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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 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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The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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