John Muir Short Quotes

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When a man plants a tree he plants himself.

John Muir
I always enjoyed the hearty society of a snowstorm.

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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

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Most interesting forest I have seen in my whole life.

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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.

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None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild.

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In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

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It is a fine thing to see people in hot earnest about anything.

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Many lawless mysteries vanish, and harmonies take their places.

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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness.

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Ants whose tiny sparks of life only burn the brighter with the heat.

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I wonder if leaves feel lonely when they see their neighbors falling?

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How infinitely superior to our physical senses are those of the mind!

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Nature in her green, tranquil woods heals and soothes all afflictions.

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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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Who wouldn't be a mountaineer! Up here all the world's prizes seem nothing

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A little pure wildness is the one great present want, both of men and sheep.

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Man and other civilized animals are the only creatures that ever become dirty.

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No right way is easy in this rough world. We must risk our lives to save them.

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Living artificially in towns, we are sickly, and never come to know ourselves.

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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.

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A man, in his books, may be said to walk the earth a long time after he is gone.

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Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally.

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We live with our heels as well as head and most of our pleasure comes in that way.

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