Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
JOHN MUIRMost people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
More John Muir Quotes
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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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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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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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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