Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
JOHN MUIRIt was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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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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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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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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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
JOHN MUIR