If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
JOHN MUIRHow glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
More John Muir Quotes
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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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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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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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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