Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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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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 power of imagination makes us infinite.
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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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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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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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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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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 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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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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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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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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