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Cosmopolitan Quote by John Muir

“John Muir, Earth — planet, Universe [ Muir's home address, as inscribed on the inside front cover of his first field journal ]” quote by John Muir — Download Open image

““John Muir, Earth — planet, Universe [ Muir's home address, as inscribed on the inside front cover of his first field journal ]””

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I will follow my instincts, be myself for good or ill, and see what will be the upshot.

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During my first years in the Sierra, I was ever calling on everybody within reach to admire them, but I found no one half…

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While cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

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...full of God's thoughts, a place of peace and safety amid the most exalted grandeur and enthusiastic action, a new song, a place of…

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“Here are the roots of all the life of the valleys, and here more simply than elsewhere is the eternal flux of nature manifested.”

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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.

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Our lives are rounded with a sleep.

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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.

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Long, blue, spiky-edged shadows crept out across the snow-fields, while a rosy glow, at first scarce discernible, gradually deepened and suffused every mountain-top, flushing the glaciers and the harsh crags above them. This was the alpenglow, to me the most impressive of all the terrestrial manifestations of God. At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle…

“This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor…

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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

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In studying the fate of our forest king, we have thus far considered the action of purely natural causes only; but, unfortunately, man is in the woods, and waste and pure destruction are making rapid headway. If the importance of the forests were even vaguely understood, even from an economic standpoint, their preservation would call forth the most watchful attention…

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“I want to affirm that thinking and living, knowing and doing, theory and practice intersect.”

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“Cosmopolitan theology affirms and radicalizes the belief that the Divine creates each and every human being as equal to every one else as a…

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“I believe theology should be about one's way of life, a kind of gaze into onesself and others, and a mode of one's profound…

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I love downtown Seattle. It's a city that has all of the outdoor activities and is still a very cosmopolitan city.

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For those who struggle with anti-pagan prejudices and stereotypes, Humanist Paganism might be a powerful educational tool. It can show that a pagan can…

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My parents are very modern. My father is a cosmopolitan person. He always supported the fact that I will be an actress. There is…

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“the overall theme of theology can be twofold: the search for meaning and the responsibility one has to the others.”

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“What could be more fundamental to our sense of meaning and purpose than a conception of whether the strivings of the human race over…

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“Who are theologians? What kind of self-identity could or should a theologian claim? Should a theologian be a defender or transmitter of Christian _tradition_? What if the _tradition_ itself carries a dark side, implicitly or explicitly, bounded by religious or cultural superiorism, ethnocentrism, homophobism, exclusive nationalism, sexism, racism, and so forth? What kind of _identity_ would then justify my rule…

“Roosevelt loved the subtleties of human relations...He was sensitive to nuances in a way that Harry Truman never was and never would be. Truman,…

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“Cosmopolitanism emphasizes and is grounded in a _singular relationality between and among people”

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“What does it mean to be human, to continue to live as human, to remain _faithful_ to the Divine while living in a cultural, sociogeopoltical, and religious world where power disparity between/among humans based on religious world where power disparity between/among humans based on their nationality, citizenship, gender, race, class, sexuality, ability, religion and so forth still prevails? The act…

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