Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
JOHN MUIRBetween every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
More John Muir Quotes
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
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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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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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Wildness is a necessity.
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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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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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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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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
JOHN MUIR