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Quote by John Muir
I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though th

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. – John Muir

Other quotes by John Muir

Keep close to Natures heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. – John Muir

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environmental
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John Muir
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Take a course in good water and air and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone no harm will befall you. – John Muir

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alone
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John Muir
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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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Other Quotes from
Nature
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Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and natures phenomena before it can again become great. – Edward Hopper

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Nature

A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have. – Wallace Stevens

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Nature

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if the simplest things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. – Eleanora Duse

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Nature

Be truthful, nature only sides with truth. – Adolf Loos

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Nature

Random Quotes

It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after. – George Ade

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Morning

For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial. – Pericles

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famous

Play allows us to develop alternatives to violence and despair…. – Stuart Brown

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Violence

I would like to be as fit as Ive always been. Ive been blessed with good health, Ive been blessed with stamina. Particularly for those great classical roles, you need an Olympian stamina. I, fortunately, have that. – Derek Jacobi

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Health