How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
JOHN MUIRIf 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.
More John Muir Quotes
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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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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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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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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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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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.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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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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Wildness is a necessity.
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Take me into the mountains.
JOHN MUIR