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.
JOHN MUIRThe 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.
More John Muir Quotes
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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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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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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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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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 all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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