Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
JOHN MUIRThousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
More John Muir Quotes
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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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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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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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’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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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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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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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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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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