But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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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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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 seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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The 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.
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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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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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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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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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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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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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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 sun shines not on us but in us.
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