I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
JOHN MUIRI only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
More John Muir Quotes
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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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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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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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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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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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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