Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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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So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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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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Going to the woods is going home.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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