In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
JOHN MUIROne must labor for beauty as for bread.
More John Muir Quotes
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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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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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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The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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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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Wander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
JOHN MUIR