Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
JOHN MUIRNothing truly wild is unclean.
More John Muir Quotes
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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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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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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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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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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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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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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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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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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Take me into the mountains.
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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
JOHN MUIR