Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
JOHN MUIRI 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.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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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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What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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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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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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Going to the woods is going home.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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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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The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
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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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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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