Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
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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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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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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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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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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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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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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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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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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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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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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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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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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