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Glaciologist Inspirational Quotes (205)

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These beautiful days ... do not exist as mere pictures - maps hung upon the walls of memory to brighten at times when touched by association or will ... They saturate themselves into every part of the body and live always.
John Muir
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
John Muir
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Writing is like the life of a glacier one eternal grind.
John Muir
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A man cannot be professor of zoölogy on one day and of chemistry on the next, and do good work in both. As in a concert all are musicians,-one plays one instrument, and one another, but none all in perfection.
Louis Agassiz
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We all flow from one fountain.
John Muir
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Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play.
John Muir
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In the woods is perpetual youth.
John Muir
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I wonder if leaves feel lonely when they see their neighbors falling?
John Muir
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I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news
John Muir
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.
John Muir
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The Big Tree is Nature's forest masterpiece, and so far as I know, the greatest of living things.
John Muir
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Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where. Life seems neither long nor short, and we take no more heed to save time or make haste than do the trees and stars. This is true freedom, a good practical sort of immortality.
John Muir
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Take a course in good water and air and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone no harm will befall you.
John Muir
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But unless some great revolution in nature modifies the present relative level between land and sea, it may safely be maintained that the present outer reef is the final southern boundary of the North American continent.
Louis Agassiz
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The ice sheets seem to be shrinking 100 years ahead of schedule.
Richard Alley
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One can make a day of any size and regulate the rising and setting of his own sun and the brightness of its shining.
John Muir
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Who publishes the sheet-music of the winds or the music of water written in river-lines?
John Muir
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It is the job of prophets and scientists alike to proclaim the glories of God.
Louis Agassiz
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Listen to them! How wholly infused with God is this one big word of love that we call the world!
John Muir
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Strange the faithless fuss made about taking a walk in the safest and pleasantest of all places, a wilderness.
John Muir
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The power of imagination is infinite.
John Muir
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Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way.
John Muir
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Nature brings us back to absolute truth whenever we wander.
Louis Agassiz
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There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.
John Muir
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