Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
JOHN MUIRLearn to live like the wild animals
More John Muir Quotes
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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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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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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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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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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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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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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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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Wander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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