On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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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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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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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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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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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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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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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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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