How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
JOHN MUIRAs 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.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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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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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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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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