Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
JOHN MUIROne must labor for beauty as for bread.
More John Muir Quotes
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Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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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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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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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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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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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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