In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
JOHN MUIRLearn to live like the wild animals
More John Muir Quotes
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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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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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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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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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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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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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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Going to the mountains is going home.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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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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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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