But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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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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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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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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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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