I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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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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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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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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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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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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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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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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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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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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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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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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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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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Going to the woods is going home.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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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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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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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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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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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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