Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
JOHN MUIRRaindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
More John Muir Quotes
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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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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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
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The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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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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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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