Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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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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.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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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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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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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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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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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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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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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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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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