I never saw a discontented tree.
JOHN MUIRMountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
More John Muir Quotes
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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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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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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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