God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
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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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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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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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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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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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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