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.
JOHN MUIROne touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
More John Muir Quotes
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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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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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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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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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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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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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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It 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.
JOHN MUIR






