In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
JOHN MUIREverything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
More John Muir Quotes
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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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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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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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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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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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I never saw a discontented tree.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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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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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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