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.
JOHN MUIRLet children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
More John Muir Quotes
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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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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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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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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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Learn to live like the wild animals
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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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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