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Letter "J" » John Muir Quotes
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«Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!»
Author: John Muir
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Days of Heaven, directions, Gone With the Wind, miles, space travel, traveling, wandering
«Of all the fire mountains which like beacons, once blazed along the Pacific Coast, Mount Rainier is the noblest.»
«When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.»
«Men use care in purchasing a horse, and are neglectful in choosing friends»
«The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thought and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains.»
Author: John Muir
«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.»
«To some, beauty seems but an accident of creation: to Muir it was the very smile of God.»
Author: John Muir
«Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot defend themselves or run away. Andfew destroyers of trees ever plant any; nor can planting avail much towardrestoring our grand aboriginal giants. It took more than three thousandyears to make some of the oldest of the Sequoias, trees that are stillstanding in perfect strength and beauty, waving and singing in the mightyforests of the Sierra.»
Author: John Muir
«One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.»
Author: John Muir
«grandest special temple of nature I was ever permitted to enter.»
Author: John Muir
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