"When a man plants a tree, he plants…" — John Muir

"When a man plants a tree, he plants himself."

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273 Quotes by John Muir

John Muir has 273 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

It may not be easy, life isn't easy, but dreams keep you alive.
What is worthwhile in life? I think it is worth living and dreaming. If you don't you may be dead…
Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other…
Look! Nature is overflowing with the grandeur of God!
These beautiful days ... do not exist as mere pictures - maps hung upon the walls of memory to brighten…
I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any…
We all travel the milky way together, trees and men; but it never occurred to me until this storm-day, while…
The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts... Why…
When we try to pick out anything by itself we find it hitched to everything else in the universe ...…
Bears are made of the same dust as we, and they breathe the same winds and drink of the same…
How many hearts with warm, red blood in them are beating under cover of the woods, and how many teeth…
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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More Garden Quotes

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. — Margaret Atwood
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees. — Marcus Aurelius
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is… — Alfred Austin
Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are. — Alfred Austin
There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class… — Alfred Austin
Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society. — Alfred Austin
Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens,… — Diane Ackerman
A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most… — Teresa of Avila
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. — Francis Bacon

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