How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
JOHN MUIRMost people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
More John Muir Quotes
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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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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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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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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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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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