"No wonder the hills and groves were God's……" — John Muir
"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 off and dimmer seems the Lord himself."
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273 Quotes by John Muir
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Look! Nature is overflowing with the grandeur of God!
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These beautiful days ... do not exist as mere pictures - maps hung upon the walls of memory to brighten…
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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any…
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When we try to pick out anything by itself we find it hitched to everything else in the universe ...…
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Bears are made of the same dust as we, and they breathe the same winds and drink of the same…
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How many hearts with warm, red blood in them are beating under cover of the woods, and how many teeth…
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The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
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A true leader is one who designs the cathedral and then shares the vision that inspires others to build it.
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There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.
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Many men build as cathedrals are built-the part nearest the ground finished, but that part which soars toward heaven, the…
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Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.
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He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious. He who seeks to become sexton…
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I was in the show for 21 days once-the 21 greatest days of my life. You know, you never handle…
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It seems that, after nineteen centuries of extraordinary glorification, the small Host for which so many cathedrals have sprung up,…
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To me, nature is sacred; trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
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