Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
JOHN MUIRThe world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
More John Muir Quotes
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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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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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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
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Take me into the mountains.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
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The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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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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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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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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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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