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John Muir Inspirational Quotes (173)

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Divine love is the sublime boss of the universe.
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At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
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I wish I knew where I was going. Doomed to be carried of the spirit into the wilderness, I suppose. I wish I could be more moderate in my desires, but I cannot, and so there is no rest.
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I...am always glad to touch the living rock again and dip my hand in the high mountain air.
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I always enjoyed the hearty society of a snowstorm.
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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 anyhow - inside.
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Wilderness is a necessity ... They will see what I meant in time. There must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls. Food and drink is not all. There is the spiritual. In some it is only a germ, of course, but the germ will grow.
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Many of Nature's finest lessons are to be found in her storms, and if careful to keep in right relations with them, we may go safely abroad with them, rejoicing in the grandeur and beauty of their works and ways.
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I like to walk, touch living Mother Earth—bare feet best, and thrill every step. Used to envy happy reptiles that had advantage of so much body in contact with earth, bosom to bosom. [We] live with our heels as well as head and most of our pleasure comes in that way.
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Only spread a fern-frond over a man's head and worldly cares are cast out, and freedom and beauty and peace come in.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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We all flow from one fountain- Soul. All are expressions of one love.
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The moon is looking down into the canyon, and how marvelously the great rocks kindle to her light! Every dome, and brow, and swelling boss touched by her white rays, glows as if lighted with snow.
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I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found.
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But to gain a perfect view, one must go yet further, over a curving brow to a slight shelf on the extreme brink.
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All wilderness seems to be full of tricks and plans to drive and draw us up into God's light.
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Nature had gathered her choicest treasures , to draw her lovers into close and confiding communion with her
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Tug on anything in nature and you will find it connected to everything else.
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Society doesn't need that everybody is behaving in the full normal way... like people in a Buddhist monastery... But eccentricity may also connect with the irrational.
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Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.
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None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild.
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To ask me whether I could endure to live without friends is absurd. It is easy enough to live out of material sight of friends, but to live without human love is impossible.
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The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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