One must labor for beauty as for bread.
JOHN MUIRThere 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.
More John Muir Quotes
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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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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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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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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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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Going to the woods is going home.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
JOHN MUIR