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.
JOHN MUIRIn drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
More John Muir Quotes
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
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At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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Wander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
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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.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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