Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
JOHN MUIRI 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.
More John Muir Quotes
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
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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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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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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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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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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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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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