One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
JOHN MUIRI am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
More John Muir Quotes
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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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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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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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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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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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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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.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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