I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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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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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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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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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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