There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
JOHN MUIREverybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
More John Muir Quotes
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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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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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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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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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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
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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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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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There 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.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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Take me into the mountains.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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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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