Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
JOHN MUIRI never saw a discontented tree.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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Take me into the mountains.
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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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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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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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!
JOHN MUIR