A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
JOHN MUIRNothing truly wild is unclean.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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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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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
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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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