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 MUIRWildness is a necessity.
More John Muir Quotes
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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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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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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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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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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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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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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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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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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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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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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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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