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World Quotes by John Muir
- The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts... Why should man value himself as…
- Most people are on the world, not in it.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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 God's wildness lies the hope of the world-the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere…
- No right way is easy in this rough world. We must risk our lives to save them.
- 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…
- I used to envy the father of our race, dwelling as he did in contact with the new-made fields and plants of Eden; but I…
- 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…
- Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body…
- 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…
- If the Creator were to bestow a new set of senses upon us, or slightly remodel the present ones, leaving all the rest of nature…
- No words will ever describe the exquisite beauty and charm of this mountain park – Nature’s landscape garden at once tenderly beautiful and sublime. No…
- Listen to them! How wholly infused with God is this one big word of love that we call the world!
- To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
- I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as…
- The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
- When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
- In God's wildness lies the hope of the world.
- Who wouldn't be a mountaineer! Up here all the world's prizes seem nothing
- Most people are on the world, not in it-- having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them-- undiffused seporate, and rigidly alone like…
- Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
- 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…
- One learns that the world, though made, is yet being made; that this is still the morning of creation; that mountains long conceived are now…
More World Quotes
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — 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
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach