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.
JOHN MUIRNot blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
More John Muir Quotes
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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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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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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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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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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