The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
JOHN MUIRThere is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Going to the woods is going home.
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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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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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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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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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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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