Quote by John Muir
Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way

Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life. – John Muir

Other quotes by John Muir

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

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Bees
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The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual. – John Muir

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Nature
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world. – John Muir

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Travel
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Other Quotes from
Arbor Day
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Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does. – George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists, 1903

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Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. – Cree Indian Proverb

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Arbor Day

Any fool can destroy trees…. God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand straining, leveling tempests and floods; but he cannot save them from fools… – John Muir, “The American Forests,” August 1897

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Arbor Day

I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines. – Henry David Thoreau

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Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs. – Isaiah Berlin

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That is the definition of faith – acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove. – Dan Brown

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Faith

A screaming song is good to know in case you need to scream – Ruth Krauss (1901–1993), Open House for Butterflies, 1960

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Emotions

If a man loves the labor of his trade apart from any question of success or fame, the Gods have called him. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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