Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
JOHN MUIRIn drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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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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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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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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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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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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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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