Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
JOHN MUIRThe rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
More John Muir Quotes
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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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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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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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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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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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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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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.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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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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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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