I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
JOHN MUIRBetween every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
More John Muir Quotes
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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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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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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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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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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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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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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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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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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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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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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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I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
JOHN MUIR