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 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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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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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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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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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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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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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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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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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
JOHN MUIR






