It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
JOHN MUIRIt seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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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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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
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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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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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