The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
JOHN MUIREverybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
More John Muir Quotes
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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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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As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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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 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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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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