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!
JOHN MUIRI never saw a discontented tree.
More John Muir Quotes
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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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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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
JOHN MUIR