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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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
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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 all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
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If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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