Learn to live like the wild animals
JOHN MUIRHow narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
More John Muir Quotes
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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
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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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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
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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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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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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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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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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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