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.
JOHN MUIRIt seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
More John Muir Quotes
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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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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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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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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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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The 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.
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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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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
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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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