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John Muir
American
Environmentalist
About the author
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
John Muir,
American
Environmentalist
#Mountains
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,
American
Environmentalist
#Travel
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
John Muir,
American
Environmentalist
#Nature
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
John Muir,
American
Environmentalist
#Sun
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,
American
Environmentalist
#Songs
#Now
#Trees
#Enthusiasm
#Worship
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,
American
Environmentalist
#Strength
#Play
#May
#Needs
#Nature
#Soul
#Body
#Beauty
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,
American
Environmentalist
#God
#Disease
#Trees
#Fools
The mountains are calling and I must go.
John Muir,
American
Environmentalist
#Mountains
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,
American
Environmentalist
#Will
#Youth
#May
#Nature
#Harm
#Water
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
John Muir,
American
Environmentalist
#Wilderness
#Universe
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
John Muir,
American
Environmentalist
#Universe
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,
American
Environmentalist
#Day
#Wind
#Sun
#Traveling
#Space
#Trees
#Heaven
To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
John Muir,
American
Environmentalist
#World
#Wilderness
#Countries
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
John Muir,
American
Environmentalist
#Civilization
#Nature
#Spiritual
#Poetry
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
John Muir,
American
Environmentalist
#Imagination
#Power
#Infinite
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,
American
Environmentalist
#People
#Heart
#May
#Man
#Water
#Temple
#Churches
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,
American
Environmentalist
#Heart
#Spirit
#Nature
There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.
John Muir,
American
Environmentalist
#May
#Control
#Creation