The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
JOHN MUIRI ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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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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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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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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At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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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.
JOHN MUIR