"Writing is like the life of a glacier;…" — John Muir
"Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind."
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273 Quotes by John Muir
John Muir has 273 quotes on this site.
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It may not be easy, life isn't easy, but dreams keep you alive.
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What is worthwhile in life? I think it is worth living and dreaming. If you don't you may be dead…
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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other…
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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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We all travel the milky way together, trees and men; but it never occurred to me until this storm-day, while…
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts... Why…
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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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Tell me what you will of the benefactions of city civilization, of the sweet security of streets-all as part of…
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While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward,…
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen…
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I drink a bucket of white tea in the morning. I read about this tea of the Emperor of China,…
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The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind…
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Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal…
— Charles Baudelaire
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The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering…
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I'm less desperate now to express what's inside me, that's true - I act these days because it keeps me…
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Besides the physical ordinance of baptism and the laying on of hands, one must be spiritually born again to gain…
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God our Father, Jesus, our Elder Brother and our Redeemer, and the Holy Ghost, the Testator, are perfect. They know…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Woman was given to man as an helpmeet. That complementary association is ideally portrayed in the eternal marriage of our…
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The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and…
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