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Light Quotes by John Muir
- Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest! Days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand…
- How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! To behold this alone is worth the pains of any excursion a thousand times over. The…
- The finest of the glacier meadow gardens lie ...imbedded in the upper pine forests like lakes of light.
- No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life...Awful in stern, immovable majesty, how softly…
- Memories may escape the action of the will, may sleep a long time, but when stirred by the right influence, though that influence be light…
- All wilderness seems to be full of tricks and plans to drive and draw us up into God's light.
- The moon is looking down into the canyon, and how marvelously the great rocks kindle to her light! Every dome, and brow, and swelling boss…
- 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…
- Over the summit, I saw the so-called Mono desert lying dreamily silent in the thick, purple light -- a desert of heavy sun-glare beheld from…
- Long, blue, spiky-edged shadows crept out across the snow-fields, while a rosy glow, at first scarce discernible, gradually deepened and suffused every mountain-top, flushing the…
- At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to…
More Light Quotes
- There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere. — Isaac Asimov
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe
- Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people… — Margaret Atwood
- The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. — Saint Augustine
- My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what… — Saint Augustine
- India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold… — Sri Aurobindo
- The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in… — Irving Babbitt