Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
JOHN MUIREarth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
More John Muir Quotes
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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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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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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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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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
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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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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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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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Going to the woods is going 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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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.
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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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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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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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