So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
JOHN MUIRI only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
More John Muir Quotes
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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As 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.
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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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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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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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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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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 world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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