One must labor for beauty as for bread.
JOHN MUIRSpring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
More John Muir Quotes
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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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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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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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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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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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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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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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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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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