There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
JOHN MUIROne must labor for beauty as for bread.
More John Muir Quotes
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
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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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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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