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John Muir Quotes

«Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.»
«The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.»
«The battle we have fought, and are still fighting for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong, and we cannot expect to see the end of it ... So we must count on watching and striving for these trees, and should always be glad to find anything so surely good and noble to strive for.»
«To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.»
Author: John Muir | Keywords: Alaska, The Lover, wilderness
«Nature chose for a tool, not the earthquake or lightning to rend and split asunder, not the stormy torrent or eroding rain, but the tender snow-flowers noiselessly falling through unnumbered centuries.»
«Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountain is going home; that wildness is necessity; that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.»
«Doubly happy, however, is the man whom lofty mountain tops are within reach, for the lights that shine there illumine all that lies below»
«There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.»
Author: John Muir | About: Control | Keywords: braggart, braggarts, glance, lords
«The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.»
«Brought into right relationships with the wilderness, man would see that his appropriation of Earth's resourcesbeyond his personal needs would only bring imbalance and begat ultimate loss and poverty by all.»

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