Nothing truly wild is unclean.
JOHN MUIRAs 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.
More John Muir Quotes
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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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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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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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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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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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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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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