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.
JOHN MUIRNot blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
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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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Wildness is a necessity.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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Wander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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