Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
JOHN MUIRWalk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
More John Muir Quotes
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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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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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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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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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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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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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