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 MUIRThe rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
More John Muir Quotes
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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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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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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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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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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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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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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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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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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