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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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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Wander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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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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Going to the mountains is going home.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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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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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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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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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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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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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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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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I never saw a discontented tree.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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