It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
JOHN MUIRHandle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
More John Muir Quotes
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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Take me into the mountains.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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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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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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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.
JOHN MUIR