Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
JOHN MUIRI never saw a discontented tree.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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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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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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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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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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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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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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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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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
JOHN MUIR






