Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
JOHN MUIROne must labor for beauty as for bread.
More John Muir Quotes
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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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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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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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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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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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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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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Take me into the mountains.
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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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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 touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
JOHN MUIR






