The sun shines not on us but in us.
JOHN MUIRIt 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.
More John Muir Quotes
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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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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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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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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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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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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Take me into the mountains.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
JOHN MUIR






