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 MUIRTo the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
More John Muir Quotes
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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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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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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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
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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
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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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.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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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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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
JOHN MUIR