Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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It 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.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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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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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
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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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The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
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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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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
JOHN MUIR