I never saw a discontented tree.
JOHN MUIRIn our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
More John Muir Quotes
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The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
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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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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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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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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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Thousands 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
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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