On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
JOHN MUIRNot blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
More John Muir Quotes
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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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.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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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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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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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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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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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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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
JOHN MUIR