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.
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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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 world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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Wander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
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The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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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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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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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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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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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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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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Take me into the mountains.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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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.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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