I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
JOHN MUIROne must labor for beauty as for bread.
More John Muir Quotes
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Take me into the mountains.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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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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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
JOHN MUIR