When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
JOHN MUIRLet children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
More John Muir Quotes
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
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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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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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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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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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