I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
JOHN MUIRThe world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
More John Muir Quotes
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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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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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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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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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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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and 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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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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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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