Most people are on the world, not in it - having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them - undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate. -John Muir

 

Most people are on the world, not in it - having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them - undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.


-John Muir
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This quote is just one of 10 total John Muir quotes in our collection. John Muir is known for saying 'Most people are on the world, not in it - having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them - undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.' as well as some of the following quotes.

Tug on anything at all and you'll find it connected to everything else in the universe.

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

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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn. -John Muir
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The clearest way to the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

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Keep close to Nature's heart...and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

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The mountains are calling and I must go. -John Muir
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The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

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