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John Muir Quotes

John Muir quotes

American Ecologist April 21, 1838 – December 24, 1914

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John Muir quote: "When we tug at a single thing in nature, we find it attached..."
When we tug at a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world. John Muir
John Muir quote: "I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s..."
I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness. John Muir
their eager, childlike attention was refreshing to see as compared with the decent, deathlike apathy of weary civilized people, in whom natural curiosity has been quenched in toil and care and poor, shallow comfort. John Muir
John Muir quote: "The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed..."
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual. John Muir
John Muir quote: "There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times..."
There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords. John Muir
John Muir quote: "In God's wildness lies the hope of the world."
In God's wildness lies the hope of the world. John Muir
At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed. John Muir
John Muir quote: "The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before..."
The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark. John Muir
John Muir quote: "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks."
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. John Muir
John Muir quote: "Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness..."
Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it. John Muir
John Muir quote: "Climb the mountains and get their good tidings."
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. John Muir
The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right. John Muir
Never while anything is left of me shall this... camp be forgotten. It has fairly grown into me, not merely as memory pictures, but as part and parcel of mind and body alike. John Muir
I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news John Muir
As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I'll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can". John Muir

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