Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
JOHN MUIROne must labor for beauty as for bread.
More John Muir Quotes
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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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