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.
JOHN MUIRIn every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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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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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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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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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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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
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