How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this glorious starry firmament for a roof In such places standing alone on themountain-top it is easy to realize that whatever special nests we make leaves and moss like the marmots and birds, or tents or piled stone we all dwell in a house of one room the world with the firmament for its roof and are sailing the celestial spaces without leaving anytrack.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.John Muir
Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home that wildness isa necessity and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.
John Muir
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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keep in view the common good of the people for all time.
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
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.
John Muir
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