Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
JOHN MUIRHandle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
More John Muir Quotes
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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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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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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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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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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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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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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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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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