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.
JOHN MUIRHow narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
More John Muir Quotes
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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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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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
JOHN MUIR