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.
JOHN MUIRGoing to the woods is going home.
More John Muir Quotes
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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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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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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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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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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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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.
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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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