I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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 soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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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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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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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
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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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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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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.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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