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.
JOHN MUIRSo 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.
More John Muir Quotes
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Take me into the mountains.
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What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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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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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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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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