46 ordspråk av John Muir

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John Muir föddes den 21 april 1838 och dog den 24 december 1914 - Scottish writer
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en Doubly happy, however, is the man whom lofty mountain tops are within reach, for the lights that shine there illumine all that lies below
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en The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.
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en Brought into right relationships with the wilderness,
man would see that his appropriation of Earth's resources
beyond his personal needs would only bring imbalance
and begat ultimate loss and poverty by all.
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en Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!
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en When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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en The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thought and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains.
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en The 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.
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en To some, beauty seems but an accident of creation: to Muir it was the very smile of God.
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en Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot defend themselves or run away. And
few destroyers of trees ever plant any; nor can planting avail much toward
restoring our grand aboriginal giants. It took more than three thousand
years to make some of the oldest of the Sequoias, trees that are still
standing in perfect strength and beauty, waving and singing in the mighty
forests of the Sierra.
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en 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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en grandest special temple of nature I was ever permitted to enter.
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en Certainly this Joaquin Canyon is the most remarkable in many ways of all I have entered.
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en keep in view the common good of the people for all time.
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en The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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en The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
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