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.
JOHN MUIRThe world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
More John Muir Quotes
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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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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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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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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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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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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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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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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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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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