Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
JOHN MUIRAs age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
More John Muir Quotes
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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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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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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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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I never saw a discontented tree.
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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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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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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
JOHN MUIR