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.
JOHN MUIRThe world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
More John Muir Quotes
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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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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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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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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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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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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