God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
JOHN MUIRAs long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
More John Muir Quotes
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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.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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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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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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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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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
JOHN MUIR