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In God's wildness lies the hope of the world—the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. — John Muir · 1890Climb 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 off like autumn leaves. — John Muir · 1898All the wilderness seems to be full of tricks and plans to drive and draw us up into God's light. — John Muir · 1869Man and nature2 quotes
In God's wildness lies the hope of the world—the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. — John Muir · 1890The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thoughts and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains—mountain-dwellers who have grown strong there with the forest trees in Nature's workshops. — John Muir · 1890Wilderness2 quotes
In God's wildness lies the hope of the world—the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. — John Muir · 1890All the wilderness seems to be full of tricks and plans to drive and draw us up into God's light. — John Muir · 1869Alienation1 quote
Most people are on the world, not in it—have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them—undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate. — John Muir · 1890Appearance vs. reality1 quote
Oh Lord! If you but knew what a brimstone of a creature I am behind all this beautiful amiability! — Jane Welsh Carlyle · 1836Creation of Israel1 quote
His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done whech may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country. — Arthur James Balfour · 1917Existential solitude1 quote
Most people are on the world, not in it—have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them—undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate. — John Muir · 1890Focus1 quote
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once. — Samuel Smiles · 1859Inner life1 quote
Oh Lord! If you but knew what a brimstone of a creature I am behind all this beautiful amiability! — Jane Welsh Carlyle · 1836International politics1 quote
His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done whech may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country. — Arthur James Balfour · 1917Israel1 quote
His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done whech may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country. — Arthur James Balfour · 1917Israel-Palestine conflict1 quote
In Palestine we do not propose even to go through the form of consulting the wishes of the present inhabitants of the country... The Four Great Powers are committed to Zionism. And Zionism, be it right or wrong, good or bad, is rooted in age-long traditions, in present needs, in future hopes, of far profounder import than the desires and prejudices of the 700,000 Arabs who now inhabit that ancient land. — Arthur James Balfour · 1919Mountains1 quote
The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thoughts and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains—mountain-dwellers who have grown strong there with the forest trees in Nature's workshops. — John Muir · 1890Nature of the universe1 quote
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. — John Muir · 1869Power of nature1 quote
All the wilderness seems to be full of tricks and plans to drive and draw us up into God's light. — John Muir · 1869Singlemindedness1 quote
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once. — Samuel Smiles · 1859Spending time in nature1 quote
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 off like autumn leaves. — John Muir · 1898The night sky1 quote
How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this glorious starry firmament for a roof!...In such places standing alone on the mountain-top it is easy to realize that whatever special nests we make—leaves and moss like the marmots and birds, or tents, or piled stone—we all dwell in a house of one room—the world with the firmament for its roof—and are sailing the celestial spaces without leaving any track. — John Muir · 1890The universe1 quote
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. — John Muir · 1869Things that don't matter1 quote
Nothing matters very much and very few things matter at all. — Arthur James Balfour · 1931