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.
JOHN MUIRSociety speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
More John Muir Quotes
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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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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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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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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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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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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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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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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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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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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