How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
JOHN MUIRNot blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
More John Muir Quotes
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Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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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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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
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The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
JOHN MUIR






