Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
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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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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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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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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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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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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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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
JOHN MUIR