Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
JOHN MUIRWe all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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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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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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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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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
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