One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
JOHN MUIRNot blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
More John Muir Quotes
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I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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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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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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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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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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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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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
JOHN MUIR