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.
JOHN MUIRI never saw a discontented tree.
More John Muir Quotes
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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
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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 power of imagination makes us infinite.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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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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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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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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