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.
JOHN MUIROf all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
More John Muir Quotes
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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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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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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Take me into the mountains.
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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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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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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
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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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Wander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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