One must labor for beauty as for bread.
JOHN MUIRNo synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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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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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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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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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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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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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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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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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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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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Take me into the mountains.
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