All John Muir Quotes
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.
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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 in
Nature
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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 in
Nature
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The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
John Muir
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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
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
John Muir
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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
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In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
John Muir in
Nature
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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.
John Muir
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
John Muir in
Nature
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There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.
John Muir in
Nature
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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 in
Nature
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