Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
JOHN MUIRWander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
More John Muir Quotes
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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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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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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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Take me into the mountains.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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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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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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