Government protection should be thrown around every wild grove and forest on the mountains, as it is around … - John Muir

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(Whispered to a novice while standing in front of the convent library) Oh! I would have been sorry to have read all those books. . . If I had read them, I would have broken my head, and I would have wasted precious time that I could have employed very simply in loving God.

John Muir

Government protection should be thrown around every wild grove and forest on the mountains, as it is around every private orchard, and the trees in public parks. To say nothing of their value as fountains of timber, they are worth infinitely more than all the gardens and parks of towns.

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No words will ever describe the exquisite beauty and charm of this mountain park – Nature’s landscape garden at once tenderly beautiful and sublime. No wonder it draws nature-lovers from all over the world.

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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.

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When I first caught sight of (Mount Shasta) over the braided folds of the Sacramento Valley I was fifty miles away and afoot, alone and weary. Yet all my blood turned to wine, and I have not been weary since.

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I am very blessed. The Valley is full of people, but they do not annoy me. I revolve in pathless places and in higher rocks than the world and his ribbony wife can reach.

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As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.

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