Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
JOHN MUIRNight is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
More John Muir Quotes
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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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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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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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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Take me into the mountains.
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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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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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