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.
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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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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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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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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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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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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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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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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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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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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