Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
JOHN MUIRThis is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
More John Muir Quotes
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Take me into the mountains.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
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If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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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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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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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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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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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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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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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 MUIR