I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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 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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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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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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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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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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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.
JOHN MUIR