I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.
More Quotes from John Muir:
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.John Muir
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
John Muir
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with allother stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
John Muir
God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.
John Muir
Memories may escape the action of the will, may sleep a long time, but when stirred by the right influence, though that influence be light as a shadow, they flash into full stature and life with everything in place.
John Muir
The mountains are calling and I must go.
John Muir
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