The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
JOHN MUIRHow narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
More John Muir Quotes
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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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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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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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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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
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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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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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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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