The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
JOHN MUIRTake me into the mountains.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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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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The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
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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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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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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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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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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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