Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
JOHN MUIRThe clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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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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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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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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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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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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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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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 clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
JOHN MUIR






