Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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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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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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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.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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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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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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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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