Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
JOHN MUIRWe are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
More John Muir Quotes
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
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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.
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