As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
JOHN MUIRGod has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
More John Muir Quotes
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I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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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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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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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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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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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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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
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