At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
JOHN MUIRNothing dollarable is safe.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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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.
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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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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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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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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
JOHN MUIR