Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
JOHN MUIRI never saw a discontented tree.
More John Muir Quotes
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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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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Going to the woods is going home.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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Take me into the mountains.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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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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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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