The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
JOHN MUIRYet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
More John Muir Quotes
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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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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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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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Wildness is a necessity.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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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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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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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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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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