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 sun shines not on us but in us.
More John Muir Quotes
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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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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
JOHN MUIR