So 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.
JOHN MUIRI only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
More John Muir Quotes
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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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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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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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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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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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 clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
JOHN MUIR