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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.

John Muir

In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
JOHN MUIR

Beautiful Forest Individual Nature Species Tree Variety
The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
JOHN MUIR

Calm Fall Forest Light Morning Nature Ripen
Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
JOHN MUIR

Hiking Land Mountain Travel
In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
JOHN MUIR

Church Mountain Nature Religion Time Turn
It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
JOHN MUIR

Natural Nature One Liner Peace Understand
Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
JOHN MUIR

Alone Harm One Liner Peace Quiet Silence Travel
As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
JOHN MUIR

Bird Hear Nature Peace Sing Travel Waterfall Winds
Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
JOHN MUIR

Bee Book Damage Flower Nature Sweet
We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
JOHN MUIR

Life Men One Liner Together Travel Tree
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
JOHN MUIR

Beginning Civil Finding Hiking Home Mountain People Tired Trekking Wild
There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
JOHN MUIR

Mountain Nature Stream
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.
JOHN MUIR

Benefit Exist God Man
On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
JOHN MUIR

Death Ideas
I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
JOHN MUIR

Light Love Moon Run Stride Strong Sun
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.
JOHN MUIR

Animal Evidence Happen Trace
One must labor for beauty as for bread.
JOHN MUIR

Beautiful Bread Labor Life One Liner

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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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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