Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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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.
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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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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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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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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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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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