Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
JOHN MUIRWho wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
More John Muir Quotes
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If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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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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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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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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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
JOHN MUIR