The sun shines not on us but in us.
JOHN MUIROne must labor for beauty as for bread.
More John Muir Quotes
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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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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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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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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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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