John Muir

Notable Quotes



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

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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 power of imagination makes us infinite.

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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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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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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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Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love.

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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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There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.

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