John Muir on imagination
John Muir97 quotes“The power of imagination makes us infinite.”
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
John MuirJohn Muir The mountains are calling and I must go.
John MuirJohn Muir I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
John MuirJohn Muir Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
John MuirJohn Muir Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
John MuirJohn Muir And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
John MuirJohn Muir Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
John MuirJohn Muir Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
John MuirJohn Muir Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
John MuirJohn Muir 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.
John MuirJohn Muir Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
John MuirJohn Muir The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
John MuirJohn Muir Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
John MuirJohn Muir Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
John MuirJohn Muir Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
John MuirJohn Muir Going to the mountains is going home.
John MuirJohn Muir
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More on imagination
I’ve done a lot of bad things. Use your imagination.
Katy PerryKaty Perry Few people have the imagination for reality.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe My love for imaginary objects and my facility in lending myself to them ended by disillusioning me with everything around me, and determined that love of solitude which I have retained ever since that time.
Jean-Jacques RousseauJean-Jacques Rousseau My love for imaginary objects and my facility in lending myself to them ended by disillusioning me with everything around me, and determined that love of solitude which I have retained ever since that time.
Jean-Jacques RousseauJean-Jacques Rousseau There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine.
Sharon SalzbergSharon Salzberg Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
John DeweyJohn Dewey The starting place for radical re-imagining of love is mindfulness.
Sharon SalzbergSharon Salzberg