How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
JOHN MUIRWe all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
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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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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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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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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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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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