The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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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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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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Going to the mountains is going home.
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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
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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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Learn to live like the wild animals
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Wildness is a necessity.
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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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What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
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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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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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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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I never saw a discontented tree.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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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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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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