Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
JOHN MUIRIn the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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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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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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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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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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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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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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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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