A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
JOHN MUIREverything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
More John Muir Quotes
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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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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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
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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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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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If 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.
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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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