The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
JOHN MUIR
How 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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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
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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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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
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Wander 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.
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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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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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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.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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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.
JOHN MUIR