I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
JOHN MUIRA part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
More John Muir Quotes
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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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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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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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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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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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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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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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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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
JOHN MUIR