Nothing truly wild is unclean.
JOHN MUIROne must labor for beauty as for bread.
More John Muir Quotes
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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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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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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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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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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