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 MUIRSo 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.
More John Muir Quotes
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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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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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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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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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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As 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.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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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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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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