"The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every……" — 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."
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273 Quotes by John Muir
John Muir has 273 quotes on this site.
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It may not be easy, life isn't easy, but dreams keep you alive.
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What is worthwhile in life? I think it is worth living and dreaming. If you don't you may be dead…
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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other…
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Look! Nature is overflowing with the grandeur of God!
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These beautiful days ... do not exist as mere pictures - maps hung upon the walls of memory to brighten…
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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any…
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We all travel the milky way together, trees and men; but it never occurred to me until this storm-day, while…
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts... Why…
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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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Bears are made of the same dust as we, and they breathe the same winds and drink of the same…
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How many hearts with warm, red blood in them are beating under cover of the woods, and how many teeth…
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Tell me what you will of the benefactions of city civilization, of the sweet security of streets-all as part of…
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From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
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Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.
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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.
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Makes you wonder if the gods are always right.
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