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John Muir has 274 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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It may not be easy, life isn't easy, but dreams keep you alive.
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What is worthwhile in life? I think it is worth living and dreaming. If you don't you may be dead anyhow -…
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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…
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Look! Nature is overflowing with the grandeur of God!
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These beautiful days ... do not exist as mere pictures - maps hung upon the walls of memory to brighten at times…
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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can…
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We all travel the milky way together, trees and men; but it never occurred to me until this storm-day, while swinging in…
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts... Why should man…
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When we try to pick out anything by itself we find it hitched to everything else in the universe ... The whole…
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Bears are made of the same dust as we, and they breathe the same winds and drink of the same waters. A…
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How many hearts with warm, red blood in them are beating under cover of the woods, and how many teeth and eyes…
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Tell me what you will of the benefactions of city civilization, of the sweet security of streets-all as part of the natural…
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He wakes into music the green forest-bowers.
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There are some things, but not too many, toward which the countryman knows he must be properly respectful if he would avoid…
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No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found…
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Out of the ruined lodge and forgotten mansion, bowers that are trodden under foot, and pleasure-houses that are dust, the poet calls…
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Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers.
— John Keats
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Jas in the Arab language is despair, And Min the darkest meaning of a lie. Thus cried the Jessamine among the flowers,…
— Charles Godfrey Leland
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Autumn, in his leafless bowers, is waiting for the winter's snow.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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I have seen oaks of many species in many kinds of exposure and soil, but those of Kentucky excel in grandeur all…
— John Muir
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Let me just say that I am not often lonely in country places. In cities I am, like the writers of the…
— Nuala O'Faolain
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Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of…
— Thomas Paine
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Not forever does the bulbul sing In balmy shades of bowers, Not forever lasts the spring Nor ever blossom the flowers. Not…
— Khushwant Singh
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