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Wild Quotes by John Muir
- None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild.
- 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…
- 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,…
- Wander here a whole summer, if you can ... Thousands of wild blessings will search you and soak you as if you were a sponge,…
- 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…
- All the wild world is beautiful, and it matters but little where we go, to highlands or lowlands, woods or plains, on the sea or…
- There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties
- As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the…
- God never made an ugly landscape. All that sun shines on is beautiful, so long as it is wild.
- Nothing truly wild is unclean.
More Wild Quotes
- Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. — Aristotle
- Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the… — David Attenborough
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see… — David Attenborough
- I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in… — Margaret Atwood
- What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! — Jane Austen
- For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins… — Diane Ackerman
- Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin. — Lord Acton
- I'm really schizophrenic about that, because on the one hand I would say, yes there is, there's something inherently, even violent about… — Lester Bangs
- Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it… — Francis Bacon
- I think people think Jim Carrey's just wild and crazy. He really is very disciplined. It is true of Eddie Murphy and… — Christine Baranski
- For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb… — Edward Abbey