Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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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At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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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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Learn to live like the wild animals
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
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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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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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Going to the woods is going home.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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The 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.
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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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