70 result(s) for John Muir Quotes.
"The more I see, the more I realize people are the problem, and the less I feel like being around them."
"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."
"Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home."
"All the wild world is beautiful, and is a bazaar for the soul’s enrichment."
"One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books."
"Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity."
"The sun shines not on us but in us. The rivers flow not past, but through us."
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"This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls."
"One day's exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books."
"The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual."
"None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild."
"The battle we have fought, and are still fighting for the forests, is a part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong."
"I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness."
"The power of the mountains is a power of the soul."
"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees."
"Nature's peace will flow into you, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves."
"Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where. Life seems neither long nor short, and we take no more heed to save time or make haste than do the trees and stars. This is true freedom, a good practical sort of immortality."
"As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing."
"The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil."
"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings."
"I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in."
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"Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue."
"Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn."
"The beauty of the landscape - joy-giving, soul-enriching - this is the friend of wisdom."
"Everybody needs beauty...places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike."
"Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grasses and gentians of glacial meadows, in craggy garden nooks full of nature's darlings."
"In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks."
"Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean."
"Going to the mountains is going home."
"Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal."
"Most people are on the world, not in it."
"Keep close to Nature's heart, yourself; and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean."
"I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in."
"Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home, that wilderness is a necessity."
"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe."
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"One day's exposure to mountains is better than cartloads of books."
"The universe is full of big surprises and all you have to do is open your eyes to the world's possibilities."
"The mountains are calling and I must go."
"The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness."
"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."
"Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world."
"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world."
"The power of imagination makes us infinite."
"Nature is always lovely, invincible, glad, whatever is done and suffered by her creatures. All scars she heals, whether in rocks or water or sky or hearts."
"Going to the woods is going home."
"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."
"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks."
"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees."
"The sun shines not on us but in us."
"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."
"Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it."
"The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark."
"Everything is flowing -- going somewhere, animals and so-called lifeless rocks as well as water. Thus the snow flows fast or slow in grand beauty-making glaciers and avalanches."
"Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed."
"The power of the imagination makes us infinite."
"Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt."
"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."
"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 alike."
"I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude."
"Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees."
"In God's wildness lies the hope of the world - the great fresh, unblighted, unredeemed wilderness."
"This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising."
"How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!"
"One day's exposure to mountains is better than a thousand books."
"I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends and to discover in them البديل all the lovely qualities I admire."
"To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me."
"Earth has no sorrow that earth cannot heal."
"Of all the fire mountains which like beacons, once were lighted along the Pacific Coast, Mount Shasta is the most majestic."
"Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter."
"Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, conjuring seeming disorder out of order."
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