The power of imagination makes us infinite.
JOHN MUIRThe soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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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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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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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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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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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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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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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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