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Fire Quotes by John Muir
- To lovers of the wild, these mountains are not a hundred miles away. Their spiritual power and the goodness of the sky make them near,…
- Indians walk softly and hurt the landscape hardly more than the birds and squirrels, and their brush and bark huts last hardly longer than those…
- Yosemite Park... None can escape its charms. Its natural beauty cleans and warms like a fire, and you will be willing to stay forever in…
- Of all the fire mountains which like beacons, once blazed along the Pacific Coast, Mount Rainier is the noblest.
- By forces seemingly antagonistic and destructive Nature accomplishes her beneficent designs - now a flood of fire, now a flood of ice, now a flood…
- None may wholly escape the good of Nature, however imperfectly exposed to her blessings. The minister will not preach a perfectly flat and sedimentary sermon…
- The great wilds of our country, once held to be boundless and inexhaustible, are being rapidly invaded and overrun in every direction, and everything destructible…
- In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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- That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed… — Timothy Garton Ash
- You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they're both on fire - they're exactly alike. — Dave Attell
- Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection. — Richard Bach
- Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not… — Francis Bacon
- It's just very homey in Ireland. It's very comforting and comfortable. There's lots of fireplaces with fires. It's just really cozy. — Amy Adams
- Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort… — James A. Baldwin
- In all parts of the Old World, as well as of the New, it was evident that Columbus had kindled a fire… — Charles Kendall Adams