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 MUIREvery hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
More John Muir Quotes
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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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 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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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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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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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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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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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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