In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
JOHN MUIROne must labor for beauty as for bread.
More John Muir Quotes
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
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The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
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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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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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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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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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