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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

Other quotes by John Muir

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Natures peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you… while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. – John Muir

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Climbing
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John Muir
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I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. – John Muir

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Nature
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Nature always tends to act in the simplest way. – Bernoulli

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Nature

Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that. – Xun Zi

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Nature

Nature is not benevolent: with ruthless indifference she makes all things serve their purposes… – Laozi, as quoted in The Wisdom of the East: The Sayings of Lao Tzŭ, transla

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Nature

A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have. – Wallace Stevens

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When videotape came so a lot of movies that I do have a kind of afterlife in video. Things where movies that I do would come and go they still come and go but you can go rent them and see them on TV. – Christopher Walken

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It is not enough to know your craft – you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more. – Edouard Manet

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Oh, that lovely title, ex-president. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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