As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
JOHN MUIRAnother glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
More John Muir Quotes
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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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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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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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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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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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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