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John Muir
American
Environmentalist
Born:
Apr 21
,
1838
Died:
Dec 24
,
1914
Beauty
Best
Every
God
Good
Nature
Related authors:
Aldo Leopold
Bill McKibben
David R. Brower
Garrett Hardin
Joseph Wood Krutch
Luther Burbank
Paul Hawken
Roger Tory Peterson
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
John Muir
Wisdom
Nature
Walk
Every
Seeks
More
He
Than
Far
Receives
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
Environmental
Nature
Heart
Spend
Once
Spirit
Clean
Week
Clear
Climb
Close
Mountain
Woods
Break
Your
Wash
Keep
Away
Awhile
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
John Muir
Environmental
Try
Universe
Else
Everything
Everything Else
Out
Find
Pick
Itself
Hitched
Anything
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
Health
Strength
Needs
Nature
Soul
Beauty
Everybody
Give
Heal
Well
Pray
May
Where
Bread
Places
Body
Body Needs
Play
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
John Muir
Inspirational
Glorious
Mountains
Sun
Gives
How
Greeting
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
John Muir
Great
Together
Space
Singing
Beauty
Stars
Universe
Other
Flying
Striped
Through
Contemplate
Globe
Islands
Continents
Shining
Infinite
Storm
Whole
Appears
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
God
Nature
Fools
Saved
Trees
Thousand
He
Drought
Disease
Cannot
Them
Floods
Cared
Save
Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God.
John Muir
God
Light
Calm
Everything
Thousand
Windows
Seems
Vast
Divine
Opening
Days
Equally
Mountain
Oh
Us
Show
Whose
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.
John Muir
Alone
Silence
Travel
Heart
Dust
Other
Wilderness
Only
Chatter
Mere
Baggage
Hotels
Without
Truly
Get
Going
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.
John Muir
Work
Beautiful
Nature
Song
Rest
Chasing
Building
Down
Everything
Destroying
Out
Allowing
Another
Motion
Endless
Form
Creating
Ever
Keeping
Flowing
Pulling
The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart of the roughest solitudes with smooth reserve of strength, through dense belts of brush and forest encumbered with fallen trees and boulder piles, across canons, roaring streams, and snow-fields, ever showing forth beauty and courage.
John Muir
Strength
Heart
Courage
Beauty
Trees
Way
Admire
See
More
Brush
Through
Boulder
Roaring
Make
Piles
Smooth
Fallen
Dense
Forest
Canon
Them
Forth
Across
Showing
Reserve
Ever
Streams
Deer
Belts
Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them... may we be filled with the Holy Ghost.
John Muir
Natural
Every
Ghost
Object
Only
Divinity
Contact
Coming
Conductor
May
Them
Holy
Holy Ghost
Filled
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.
John Muir
Love
God
Soul
Words
Men
Waters
Rocks
Etc
Expressions
Fountain
Flow
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
Environmental
Alone
Good
Nature
You
Youth
Water
Will
Own
Air
Take
Renew
Course
Go
Befall
Quietly
May
Eternal
Eternal Youth
Your
Harm
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
Enthusiasm
Glorious
Few
Every
Tree
Trees
Waving
Worship
Though
Outer
Silent
Tossing
Minutes
Never
Songs
Excited
Roaring
Like
Bowing
Cease
Branches
Storm
Now
Ear
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.
John Muir
Life
Home
Nature
Struggle
Weather
Wild
Way
Rank
Some
Seems
Beasts
Vegetation
Feeble
Adventurous
Suppose
Armed
Him
Unwelcome
Making
Tangled
Came
His
His Way
Forests
Trying
Going
Going Home
Woods
Hard
Spears
Traveler
Originally
Creature
Needles
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
John Muir
Nature
Spiritual
Destroyed
Civilization
Poetry
Generally
Gross
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
John Muir
Wisdom
Good
Mountains
Tidings
Climb
Get
I have heard of Texas pioneers living without bread or anything made from the cereals for months without suffering, using the breast-meat of wild turkeys for bread. Of this kind, they had plenty in the good old days when life, though considered less safe, was fussed over the less.
John Muir
Life
Good
Suffering
Old
Turkeys
Made
Living
Wild
Considered
Months
Though
Plenty
Kind
Good Old Days
Had
Over
Days
Safe
Without
Heard
Texas
Pioneers
Bread
Anything
Old Days
Less
Using
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
Nature
Travel
Tree
Saw
Though
About
Never
Liked
Discontented
As Far As
Grip
Far
Rooted
Ground
Fast
I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God's mountains.
John Muir
God
Nature
People
Care
Beauty
Mountains
Live
Mine
John
Entice
More
Only
Jordan
Look
Fellow
Knows
His
Sinners
Than
Get
Heaven
Baptist
Loveliness
Eager
To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
John Muir
Travel
Wonderful
World
Lover
Wilderness
Countries
Most
Alaska
Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed - chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones.
John Muir
Fool
Long
Down
Trees
Destroy
Destroyed
Hides
Out
Hunted
Run
Would
Horns
Magnificent
Chased
Could
Got
Still
Dollar
Any
Cannot
Bark
Fun
Away
The practical importance of the preservation of our forests is augmented by their relations to climate, soil and streams.
John Muir
Soil
Relations
Our
Importance
Practical
Climate
Augmented
Forests
Streams
Preservation
Bread without flesh is a good diet, as on many botanical excursions I have proved. Tea also may easily be ignored. Just bread and water and delightful toil is all I need - not unreasonably much, yet one ought to be trained and tempered to enjoy life in these brave wilds in full independence of any particular kind of nourishment.
John Muir
Life
Good
Water
Enjoy Life
Independence
Tea
Enjoy
Ought
Easily
Kind
Tempered
Delightful
Particular
Excursion
Particular Kind
Also
Without
Proved
Trained
Brave
Any
May
Diet
Just
Bread
Much
Flesh
Toil
Full
Ignored
Nourishment
Many
Need
The waving of a pine tree on the top of a mountain - a magic wand in Nature's hand - every devout mountaineer knows its power; but the marvelous beauty value of what the Scotch call a breckan in a still dell, what poet has sung this?
John Muir
Nature
Value
Poet
Power
Beauty
Every
Tree
Waving
Top
Sung
Magic
Magic Wand
Marvelous
Dell
Call
Knows
Devout
Still
Pine
Hand
Scotch
Mountain
Wand
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