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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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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Wander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
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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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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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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 deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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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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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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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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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
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