One must labor for beauty as for bread.
JOHN MUIRBetween every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
More John Muir Quotes
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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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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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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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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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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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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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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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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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.
JOHN MUIR