I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
JOHN MUIRWe were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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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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Take me into the mountains.
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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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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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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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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
JOHN MUIR






