One must labor for beauty as for bread.
JOHN MUIRI care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
More John Muir Quotes
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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Take me into the mountains.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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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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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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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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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.
JOHN MUIR