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When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.
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Storms of every sort, torrents, earthquakes, cataclysms, 'convulsions of nature,' etc., howe...
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One of the best ways to see tree flowers is to climb one of the tallest trees and to get into close,...
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During my first years in the Sierra, I was ever calling on everybody within reach to admire them, bu...
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Beetles and butterflies are sometimes restricted to small areas. Each mountain in a range, and even ...
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man — a presumption not supported by all the facts...
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JOHN MUIR When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
JOHN MUIR The beauty and completeness of a wild apple tree living its own life in the woods is heartily acknow...
JOHN MUIR How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this glorious starry firmament for a roof! I...
JOHN MUIR There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's bragga...
JOHN MUIR Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows ...
JOHN MUIR The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a sho...
JOHN MUIR I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, w...
JOHN MUIR When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. •John M...
JOHN MUIR Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and che...
JOHN MUIR The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness.
JOHN MUIR Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows ...
JOHN MUIR Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life...
JOHN MUIR Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend ...
JOHN MUIR In God's wildness lies the hope of the world - the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. Th...
JOHN MUIR Fresh beauty opens one's eyes wherever it is really seen, but the very abundance and completeness of...
JOHN MUIR Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and gi...
JOHN MUIR Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Here grow...
JOHN MUIR Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows ...
JOHN MUIR To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
JOHN MUIR Under the Timber and Stone Act of 1878, which might well have been called the 'Dust and Ashes Ac...
JOHN MUIR How terribly downright must be the utterances of storms and earthquakes to those accustomed to the s...
JOHN MUIR In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
JOHN MUIR Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirli...
JOHN MUIR The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spi...
JOHN MUIR Bread without flesh is a good diet, as on many botanical excursions I have proved. Tea also may easi...
JOHN MUIR The power of imagination makes us infinite.
JOHN MUIR The mountains are calling and I must go.
JOHN MUIR Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and gi...
JOHN MUIR A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing the...
JOHN MUIR Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All ar...
JOHN MUIR It is easier to feel than to realize, or in any way explain, Yosemite grandeur. The magnitudes of th...
JOHN MUIR Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine...
JOHN MUIR How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
JOHN MUIR The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
JOHN MUIR Here ends my forever memorable first High Sierra excursion. I have crossed the Range of Light, surel...
JOHN MUIR Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
JOHN MUIR God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests...
JOHN MUIR When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
JOHN MUIR Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveli...
JOHN MUIR Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
JOHN MUIR Of all the mountain ranges I have climbed, I like the Sierra Nevada the best.
JOHN MUIR One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple h...
JOHN MUIR The dispersal of juniper seeds is effected by the plum and cherry plan of hiring birds at the cost o...
JOHN MUIR The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts. ...
JOHN MUIR Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or sp...
JOHN MUIR The practical importance of the preservation of our forests is augmented by their relations to clima...
JOHN MUIR As soon as a redwood is cut down or burned, it sends up a crowd of eager, hopeful shoots, which, if ...
JOHN MUIR In all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden, ...
JOHN MUIR It seems strange that bears, so fond of all sorts of flesh, running the risks of guns and fires and ...
JOHN MUIR When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and isl...
JOHN MUIR No traveler, whether a tree lover or not, will ever forget his first walk in a sugar-pine forest. Th...
JOHN MUIR The making of the far-famed New York Central Park was opposed by even good men, with misguided pluck...
JOHN MUIR I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast roote...
JOHN MUIR All the world lies warm in one heart, yet the Sierra seems to get more light than other mountains. T...
JOHN MUIR Every other civilized nation in the world has been compelled to care for its forests, and so must we...
JOHN MUIR Indians walk softly and hurt the landscape hardly more than the birds and squirrels, and their brush...
JOHN MUIR Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed -...
JOHN MUIR Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness....
JOHN MUIR Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally. But in some of na...
JOHN MUIR I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness. Heaven knows that John the ...
JOHN MUIR The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart o...
JOHN MUIR The redwood is the glory of the Coast Range. It extends along the western slope, in a nearly continu...
JOHN MUIR Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go q...
JOHN MUIR Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
JOHN MUIR The sun shines not on us but in us.
JOHN MUIR Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them... may we ...
JOHN MUIR The waving of a pine tree on the top of a mountain - a magic wand in Nature's hand - every devou...
JOHN MUIR I bade adieu to mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the ...
JOHN MUIR The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, ...
JOHN MUIR We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love. God does not appear, and flow o...
JOHN MUIR No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with ...
JOHN MUIR I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is fou...
JOHN MUIR From the dust of the earth, from the common elementary fund, the Creator has made Homo sapiens. From...
JOHN MUIR Nature chose for a tool, not the earthquake or lightning to rend and split asunder, not the stormy t...
JOHN MUIR keep in view the common good of the people for all time.
JOHN MUIR Of all the fire mountains which like beacons, once blazed along the Pacific Coast, Mount Rainier is ...
JOHN MUIR Men use care in purchasing a horse, and are neglectful in choosing friends
JOHN MUIR “The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a ...
JOHN MUIR Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the ...
JOHN MUIR Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the ...
JOHN MUIR Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like ...
JOHN MUIR Sequoia seeds have flat wings, and glint and glance in their flight like a boy's kite.
JOHN MUIR Long, blue, spiky-edged shadows crept out across the snow-fields, while a rosy glow, at first scarce...
JOHN MUIR We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, fill...
JOHN MUIR I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing ...
JOHN MUIR The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they wer...
JOHN MUIR The coniferous forests of the Yosemite Park, and of the Sierra in general, surpass all others of the...
JOHN MUIR There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's br...
JOHN MUIR A queer fellow and a jolly fellow is the grasshopper. Up the mountains he comes on excursions, how h...
JOHN MUIR Memories may escape the action of the will, may sleep a long time, but when stirred by the right inf...
JOHN MUIR grandest special temple of nature I was ever permitted to enter.
JOHN MUIR Tug on anything at all and you'll find it connected to everything else in the universe.
JOHN MUIR Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in ...
JOHN MUIR I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any mea...
JOHN MUIR God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests...
JOHN MUIR One learns that the world, though made, is yet being made; that this is still the morning of creatio...
JOHN MUIR Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the ...
JOHN MUIR Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the gui...
JOHN MUIR What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how ...
JOHN MUIR Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in know...
JOHN MUIR One day's exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
JOHN MUIR Who wouldn't be a mountaineer! Up here all the world's prizes seem nothing
JOHN MUIR Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
JOHN MUIR Most people are on the world, not in it — have no conscious sympathy or relationship to any...
JOHN MUIR Everybody needs beauty...places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give stre...
JOHN MUIR As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn th...
JOHN MUIR A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm,
waving, swirling, tossin...
JOHN MUIR On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death. ... Let children walk with natur...
JOHN MUIR In most mills, only the best portions of the best trees are used, while the ruins are left on the gr...
JOHN MUIR Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and ch...
JOHN MUIR There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious...
JOHN MUIR Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward ...
JOHN MUIR Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot defend themselves or run away. Andfew destroyers of trees ev...
JOHN MUIR The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poe...
JOHN MUIR Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen
JOHN MUIR Keep close to Nature's heart...and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a...
JOHN MUIR Most people are on the world, not in it - having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything a...
JOHN MUIR The clearest way to the Universe is through a forest wilderness
JOHN MUIR I suppose we need not go mourning the buffaloes. In the nature of things, they had to give place to ...
JOHN MUIR This time it is real — all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
JOHN MUIR Doubly happy, however, is the man whom lofty mountain tops are within reach, for the lights that shi...
JOHN MUIR The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, ...
JOHN MUIR When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Unive...
JOHN MUIR Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, ...
JOHN MUIR Why should man value himself as more than a small part of the one great unit of creation? And what c...
JOHN MUIR The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Na...
JOHN MUIR This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a sh...
JOHN MUIR The redwood is one of the few conifers that sprout from the stump and roots, and it declares itself ...
JOHN MUIR Certainly this Joaquin Canyon is the most remarkable in many ways of all I have entered.
JOHN MUIR When I was a child in Scotland, I was fond of everything that was wild, and all my life I've been gr...
JOHN MUIR I have heard of Texas pioneers living without bread or anything made from the cereals for months wit...
JOHN MUIR And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul
JOHN MUIR Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
JOHN MUIR The wild Indian power of escaping observation, even where there is little or no cover to hide in, wa...
JOHN MUIR There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognize...
JOHN MUIR When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. -...
JOHN MUIR I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
JOHN MUIR I don't like either the word [hike] or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains - not 'hi...
JOHN MUIR Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
JOHN MUIR Going to the woods is going home.
JOHN MUIR Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her...
FRANK MUIR Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a ...
FRANK MUIR I was a beginner again. I practiced hard and used to listen very closely to recordings of American j...
JAMIE MUIR There wasn't much work around at the time, I think I found a bit in Germany or something, but we...
JAMIE MUIR At the art college in Edinburgh someone arranged for some London groups to come up and play. I was i...
JAMIE MUIR While anchoring at Boston's WCVB-TV, I reported on Mitt Romney's run for Massachusetts gover...
DAVID MUIR At 25, I found myself anchoring coverage of President Clinton's impeachment trial from Capitol H...
DAVID MUIR Touring with King Crimson wasn't a lot of fun for me. I had a lot of equipment, and when I was i...
JAMIE MUIR King Crimson were the only really famous band I'd been in.
JAMIE MUIR They're very good with their product and supporting their product. I say that from a reseller standp...
BRIAN MUIR The market is ready for these types of products. The system administrators, the companies, the gover...
BRIAN MUIR The end-user market is primed for this type of product.
BRIAN MUIR The growth, I think, is huge, simply by the fact that pretty well everybody out there is in some way...
BRIAN MUIR I really think how many times a quarterback gets hit is more important than sacks. It's all about es...
BILL MUIR We do consumer products for India, white-good products for India and medical products for India and ...
BILL MUIR As European markets move farther east, Ukraine becomes cost-competitive with our most competitive pl...
BILL MUIR Transportation is one cost that somehow gets hidden as you model these things. If you were building ...
BILL MUIR I wrote to the local news guy when I was 12 years old. I said, 'What do I need to do to be you o...
DAVID MUIR The first time it felt really dangerous, like the sort of thing you had to lock the doors and close ...
JAMIE MUIR I started thinking about moving to Edmonton in June at the Harry Jerome meet (in Burnaby, B.C.). Tha...
CARLINE MUIR He's in the mould of (retired Blue Bulls No 8) Anton Leonard.
DICK MUIR Did someone really say,"I'm going to eat the next thing that comes out of that chickens rear-end"?
MIKE MUIR Usually the odds are against it. Just on normal wear and tear. A great deal of what happens is luck ...
BILL MUIR This is the last year of your contract, and what you want to put on film is a good game against argu...
BILL MUIR I'm very impressed. He came back here with a sense of redemption. He wanted to prove to people he wa...
BILL MUIR Obviously, Kenyatta has had and will continue to have some irritation in that knee. We'll have to be...
BILL MUIR At the end of the day, when the ball is snapped, Jason Taylor is, in my opinion, the premier pass ru...
BILL MUIR I like Alderman firstly because it is not Club Clemons. It is much quieter in Alderman and there is ...
SARA MUIR We have come across footage that confirms the incident.
DICK MUIR Climate change will have its greatest impact at the coastlines, ... and the risk will go up higher t...
ROBERT MUIR Spencer will always be our theatre of choice for 'A Christmas Carol' in part because that theatre is...
LAURA MUIR I think we all know that their forwards are really physical and enjoy confrontation, but I'd imagine...
DICK MUIR I was excited about the chance to have one-on-one coaching.
CARLINE MUIR The evening news is evolving rapidly, and I think we have to be extraordinarily nimble.
DAVID MUIR It's hard enough doing this kind of work, because it just rips you apart. But to have two of them di...
DONNA MUIR Sometimes I don't even help people. I'm not able to do anything for them. But the fact that you sit ...
DONNA MUIR Concord's very good at hiding its homeless.
DONNA MUIR Against Free State we did all the playing, but we did not play correctly. If we play correctly again...
DICK MUIR I think continuity has been a problem in selection and our cohesion and confidence has suffered.
DICK MUIR Jake and I chatted at length and a compromise has been reached. We have agreed to carefully manage t...
DICK MUIR We are looking at increasing our depth with a few experienced players.
DICK MUIR We obviously didn't finish where we would have liked to in the Currie Cup, but we can take lessons o...
DICK MUIR We have given the guys some time off and will only start working with them from November 7.
DICK MUIR I can honestly say that we as the coaching staff tried to impress upon the players beforehand that v...
DICK MUIR Our likely team will also not be revealed when we play the Cats the following Wednesday in our final...
DICK MUIR There were some very pleasing performances from the new guys. Some confirmed they might have what it...
DICK MUIR See him, the gentle Bible beast, / With lacquered hoofs and curling mane, / His wondering journey fr...
EDWIN MUIR Oh these deceits are strong almost as life, / Last night I dreamt I was in the labyrinth, / And woke...
EDWIN MUIR And without fear the lawless roads
Ran wrong through all the land.
EDWIN MUIR There is a road that turning always / Cuts off the country of Again. / Archers stand there on every ...
EDWIN MUIR We have seen / Good men made evil wrangling with the evil, / Straight minds grown crooked fighting c...
EDWIN MUIR Allan had come down wanting to do some sort of crucial music and I'd been involved in so-called ...
JAMIE MUIR Most of our sales are domestic. However, we are trying to expand our export business and have been v...
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