But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
JOHN MUIRNot blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
More John Muir Quotes
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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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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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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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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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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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
JOHN MUIR