The world, we are told, was made especially for man — a presumption not supported by all the facts.
John MuirTags: universe superstition facts presumption
Never while anything is left of me shall this... camp be forgotten. It has fairly grown into me, not merely as memory pictures, but as part and parcel of mind and body alike.
John MuirOne day's exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
John MuirThe wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
John MuirTags: inspirational
This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.
John MuirTags: nature
We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
John MuirWho wouldn't be a mountaineer! Up here all the world's prizes seem nothing
John MuirIn drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
John MuirOn no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death. ... Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life, and that the grave has no victory, for it never fights.
John MuirTags: life inspirational beauty death victory joy ideas warped
Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get---people,storms, guardian angels, or sheep....
John MuirTags: inspirational
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