Nothing dollarable is safe.
JOHN MUIRSociety speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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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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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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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.
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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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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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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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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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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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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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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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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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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.
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