Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
JOHN MUIRWe were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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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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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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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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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
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It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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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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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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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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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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