Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
JOHN MUIRThe making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
More John Muir Quotes
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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Wander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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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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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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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
JOHN MUIR






