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John Muir Quotes
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Type: Environmentalist Quotes Category: American Environmentalist Quotes Date of Birth: April 21, 1838 Date of Death: December 24, 1914 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: John Muir Related Authors: David R. Brower Garrett Hardin Donella Meadows Joseph Wood Krutch Luther Burbank Aldo Leopold William Bartram |
A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.
John Muir Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. John Muir 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. John Muir 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 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 How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! John Muir 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 In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. John Muir 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. John Muir 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. John Muir Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you. John Muir The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. John Muir The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual. John Muir The mountains are calling and I must go. John Muir The power of imagination makes us infinite. John Muir There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords. John Muir To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world. John Muir 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! John Muir When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. John Muir |
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