One must labor for beauty as for bread.
JOHN MUIRIf people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
More John Muir Quotes
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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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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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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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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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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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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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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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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