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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
John Muir
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John Muir
Age: 76 †
Born: 1838
Born: April 21
Died: 1914
Died: December 24
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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.
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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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How infinitely superior to our physical senses are those of the mind!
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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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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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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.
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In the woods is perpetual youth.
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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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To the lover of pure wildness Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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Look up and down and round about you.!
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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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Some people miss flesh as a drunkard misses his dram.
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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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One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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Imagination is usually regarded as a synonym for the unreal. Yet is true imagination healthful and real, no more likely to mislead than the coarse senses. Indeed, the power of imagination makes us infinite.
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All Nature's wildness tells the same story: the shocks and outbursts of earthquakes, volcanoes, geysers, roaring, thundering waves and floods, the silent uprush of sap in plants, storms of every sort, each and all, are the orderly, beauty-making love-beats of Nature's heart.
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Rivers flow not past, but through us tingling, vibrating, exciting every cell and fiber in our bodies, making them sing and glide.
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In every country the mountains are fountains, not only of rivers but of men. Therefore we all are born mountaineers, the offspring of rock and sunshine.
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