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.
JOHN MUIRI never saw a discontented tree.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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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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It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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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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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.
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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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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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