No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
JOHN MUIRWhen one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
More John Muir Quotes
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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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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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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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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Take me into the mountains.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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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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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
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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 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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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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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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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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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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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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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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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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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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