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.
JOHN MUIREvery sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
More John Muir Quotes
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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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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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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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
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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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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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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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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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