The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
JOHN MUIREarth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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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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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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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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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
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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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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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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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Wander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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