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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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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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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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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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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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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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.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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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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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
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