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 MUIRThe power of imagination makes us infinite.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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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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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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Take me into the mountains.
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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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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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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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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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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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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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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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