Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
JOHN MUIRAs age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
More John Muir Quotes
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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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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.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
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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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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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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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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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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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