I never saw a discontented tree.
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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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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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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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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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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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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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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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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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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