God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
JOHN MUIREarth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
More John Muir Quotes
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Take me into the mountains.
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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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If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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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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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
JOHN MUIR