Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
JOHN MUIRNot blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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I never saw a discontented tree.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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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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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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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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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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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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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
JOHN MUIR