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.
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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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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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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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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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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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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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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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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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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