In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
JOHN MUIRYet 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.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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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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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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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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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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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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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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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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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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