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One Quotes by John Muir
- Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and…
- The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts... Why should man value himself as…
- One can make a day of any size and regulate the rising and setting of his own sun and the brightness of its shining.
- How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this glorious starry firmament for a roof! In such places standing alone on…
- 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…
- The body seems to feel beauty when exposed to it as it feels the campfire or sunshine, entering not by the eyes alone, but equally…
- 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…
- Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where. Life seems neither long…
- There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
- 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…
- C. albus...I think the very loveliest of all the lily family - a spotless soul, plant saint, that every one must love and so be…
- But no temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life...as if into this one mountain…
- Plants, animals, and stars are all kept in place, bridled along appointed ways, with one another, and through the midst of one another -- killing…
- Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing…
- 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…
- Fresh beauty opens one's eyes wherever it is really seen, but the very abundance and completeness of the common beauty that besets our steps prevents…
- One can make a day of any size
- 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…
- I am often asked if I am not lonely on my solitary excursions. It seems so self-evident that one cannot be lonesome where everything is…
- 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 have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence... to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it…
- The blessings of one mountain day, whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.
- When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. One fancies a heart like our…
- As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but Nature's sources never fail. Like a generous host, she offers her brimming…
More One Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle