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John Muir Quotes

John Muir quotes about people

American Ecologist April 21, 1838 – December 24, 1914

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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life. Awakening from the stupefying effects of the vice of over-industry and the deadly apathy of luxury, they are trying as best they can to mix and enrich their own little ongoings with those of Nature, and to get... John Muir
Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant. 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
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
John Muir quote: "It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from..."
It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest. John Muir

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