Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
JOHN MUIRGo quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
More John Muir Quotes
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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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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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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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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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.
JOHN MUIR