Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
JOHN MUIRIn drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
More John Muir Quotes
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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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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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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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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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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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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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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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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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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