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Quote by John Muir
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed natur

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual. – John Muir

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Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. – John Muir

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Beauty
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John Muir
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools. – John Muir

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environmental
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Im a very analytical person, a somewhat introspective person thats the nature of the work I do. – Joni Mitchell

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You cant be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. – Hal Borland

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All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation. – John Adams

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The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body. – Quintilian

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There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon ones self. – John Gay

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He whose science exceedeth his sense, perisheth by his ignorance. – Old saying

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[T]he hours are even now never so full of gain as when I give them to the sky, the sea, the open wold. Why should we grudge Nature our heart? We might as well grudge it to the God who made the world. – Adeline Sergeant, The Story of a Penitent Soul: Being the Private Papers of Mr.

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The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television. – Andrew Ross

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