One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
JOHN MUIREverything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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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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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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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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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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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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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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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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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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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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