Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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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.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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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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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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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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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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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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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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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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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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