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.
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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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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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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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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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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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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