Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
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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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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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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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
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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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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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