No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
JOHN MUIRNature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
More John Muir Quotes
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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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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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.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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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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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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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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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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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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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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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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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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