I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
JOHN MUIROn no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
More John Muir Quotes
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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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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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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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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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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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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I never saw a discontented tree.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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Going to the woods is going home.
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As 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.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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