Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
JOHN MUIROne should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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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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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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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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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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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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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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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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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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