12 of My Favorite John Muir Quotes
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Everybody needs beauty as well as bread,
places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal
and give strength
to body and soul.
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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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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods.
But he cannot save them from fools.
I used to envy the father of our race,
dwelling as he did in contact with the new-made fields and
plants of Eden; but I do so no more,
because I have discovered
that I also live in “creation's dawn.” The morning stars still sing together,
and the world, not yet half made, becomes more beautiful every day.