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From Quotes by John Muir
- I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul…
- Bears are made of the same dust as we, and they breathe the same winds and drink of the same waters. A bear's days are…
- Tell me what you will of the benefactions of city civilization, of the sweet security of streets-all as part of the natural upgrowth of man…
- The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thoughts…
- In nothing does man, with his grand notions of heaven and charity, show forth his innate, low-bred, wild animalism more clearly than in his treatment…
- One is constantly reminded of the infinite lavishness and fertility of Nature-inexhaustible abundance amid what seems enormous waste. And yet when we look into any…
- It took more than three thousand years to make some of the trees in these western woods ... Through all the wonderful, eventful centuries since…
- Although I was four years at the University [of Wisconsin], I did not take the regular course of studies, but instead picked out what I…
- In studying the fate of our forest king, we have thus far considered the action of purely natural causes only; but, unfortunately, man is in…
- Wilderness is not only a haven for native plants and animals but it is also a refuge from society. Its a place to go to…
- I never have held death in contempt, though in the course of my explorations I have oftentimes felt that to meet one's fate on a…
- Wander a whole summer if you can. Thousands of God's blessings will search you and soak you as if you were a sponge, and the…
- Wander a whole summer if you can. Â Time will not be taken from the sum of life. Â Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it…
- How lavish is Nature building, pulling down, creating, destroying, chasing every material particle from form to form, ever changing, ever beautiful.
- We all flow from one fountain- Soul. All are expressions of one love. God does not appear, and flow out, only from narrow chinks and…
- Yosemite Park is a place of rest, a refuge from the roar and dust and weary, nervous, wasting work of the lowlands, in which one…
- I don't agree with you in saying that in all human minds there is poetry. Man as he came from the hand of his Maker…
- No dogma taught by the present civilization seems to form so insuperable an obstacle in a way of a right understanding of the relations which…
- We all flow from one fountain.
- We all flow from one fountain- Soul. All are expressions of one love.
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