Best quotes by John Muir on Nature

Checkout quotes by John Muir on Nature

• ‟ In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

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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.

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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 clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

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• ‟ The mountains are calling and I must go.

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• ‟ 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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• ‟ Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally. But in some of nature's forests, the adventurous traveler seems a feeble, unwelcome creature; wild beasts and the weather trying to kill him, the rank, tangled vegetation, armed with spears and stinging needles, barring his way and making life a hard struggle.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.

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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.

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• ‟ I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God's mountains.

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• ‟ The waving of a pine tree on the top of a mountain - a magic wand in Nature's hand - every devout mountaineer knows its power; but the marvelous beauty value of what the Scotch call a breckan in a still dell, what poet has sung this?

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• ‟ Storms of every sort, torrents, earthquakes, cataclysms, 'convulsions of nature,' etc., however mysterious and lawless at first sight they may seem, are only harmonious notes in the song of creation, varied expressions of God's love.

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• ‟ The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

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• ‟ I suppose we need not go mourning the buffaloes. In the nature of things, they had to give place to better cattle, though the change might have been made without barbarous wickedness.

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