The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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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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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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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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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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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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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There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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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.
JOHN MUIR