Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
JOHN MUIRBeauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
More John Muir Quotes
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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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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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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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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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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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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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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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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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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The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
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As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
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Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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