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Temples Quotes by John Muir
- I must return to the mountains-to Yosemite. I am told that the winter storms there will not be easily borne, but I am bewitched, enchanted,…
- 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…
- 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…
- No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite.
- No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life. Some lean back in majestic repose;…
- No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther…
- Gigantic second and third growth trees are found in the redwoods, forming magnificent temple-like circles around charred ruins more than a thousand years old.
- One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of…
- A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though…
- These temple destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism, seem to have a perfect contempt for Nature, and, instead of lifting their eyes to the God of…
More Temples Quotes
- They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum. — Tallulah Bankhead
- The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers. — Matsuo Basho
- Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him… — Charles Baudelaire
- Live are a really good band. I like Stone Temple Pilots, Radiohead I love. Even Oasis. — Nuno Bettencourt
- There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been.… — Christopher Alexander
- God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple. — Chanakya
- Christ is our temple, in whom by faith all believers meet. — Matthew Henry
- The first century money changers were in the temple, but they didn't have the spirit of the temple... They were out of… — Jim Cymbala
- How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack. I might try busting myself smartly over the temple with… — Dorothy Parker
- I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and… — William Wells Brown
- Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine… — Benjamin Disraeli
- We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are… — Langston Hughes