I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
JOHN MUIRAs 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.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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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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So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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Take me into the mountains.
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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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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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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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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
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