The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
JOHN MUIROne must labor for beauty as for bread.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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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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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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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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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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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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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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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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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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Learn to live like the wild animals
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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