But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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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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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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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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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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.
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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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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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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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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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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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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
JOHN MUIR