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 MUIRThe 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.
More John Muir Quotes
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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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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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
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Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
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