Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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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 nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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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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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
JOHN MUIR