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John Muir
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
Every other civilized nation in the world has been compelled to care for its forests, and so must we if waste and destruction are not to go on to the bitter end, leaving America as barren as Palestine or Spain. John Muir
World Destruction Care Nation Every Other Bitter Bitter End Has-Been Must Civilized Leaving Go Been End Forests America Spain Barren Waste Palestine Compelled
Storms of every sort, torrents, earthquakes, cataclysms, 'convulsions of nature,' etc., however mysterious and lawless at first sight they may seem, are only harmonious notes in the song of creation, varied expressions of God's love. John Muir
Love God Nature Song First Creation Every Harmonious Earthquakes Sight Seem Lawless Varied Only Mysterious Sort However May Storms Etc Notes Expressions
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
Man Heart People Water Churches Temple Well Cathedrals Tanks Been May Holier Ever Consecrated Dam
I bade adieu to mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God. John Muir
Life God Rest My Life Determined Inventions Study Devote Mechanical
When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent. John Muir
Wild Part California Continent
Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living in the earth and eating slimy worms are yet as clean as seals or fishes, whose lives are one perpetual wash. John Muir
Food Man Animal Living Worms Earth Eating Seems Only Clean Him Making Perpetual Fishes Much Seals Wash Washing Whose Lives Necessary
Sequoia seeds have flat wings, and glint and glance in their flight like a boy's kite. John Muir
Seeds Wings Kite Glance Like Boy Flat Flight
How terribly downright must be the utterances of storms and earthquakes to those accustomed to the soft hypocrisies of society. John Muir
Society Earthquakes Those Must Terribly How Accustomed Storms Downright Soft
It seems strange that bears, so fond of all sorts of flesh, running the risks of guns and fires and poison, should never attack men except in defense of their young. How easily and safely a bear could pick us up as we lie asleep! Only wolves and tigers seem to have learned to hunt man for food, and perhaps sharks and crocodiles. John Muir
Food Man Risks Strange Lie Sharks Men Poison Young Defense Easily Hunt Running Guns Seem Fond Seems Only Bear Attack Bears Except Could Never Pick Fires Perhaps Safely Learned Sort Tigers How Wolves Up Us Asleep Should Flesh
Beetles and butterflies are sometimes restricted to small areas. Each mountain in a range, and even the different zones of a mountain, may have its own peculiar species. But the house-fly seems to be everywhere. I wonder if any island in mid-ocean is flyless. John Muir
Sometimes Own Everywhere Range Restricted Seems Small Area Island Wonder Mountain Any May Different Even Each Species Butterflies Zone Peculiar
All the world lies warm in one heart, yet the Sierra seems to get more light than other mountains. The weather is mostly sunshine embellished with magnificent storms, and nearly everything shines from base to summit - the rocks, streams, lakes, glaciers, irised falls, and the forests of silver fir and silver pine. John Muir
Heart World Sunshine Light Weather Mountains Other Everything Sierra Summit All The World Lies Silver Seems More Magnificent Glaciers Mostly Falls Pine Shines Rocks Forests Than Get Storms Lakes Warm Base Streams Nearly
During my first years in the Sierra, I was ever calling on everybody within reach to admire them, but I found no one half warm enough until Emerson came. I had read his essays, and felt sure that of all men he would best interpret the sayings of these noble mountains and trees. Nor was my faith weakened when I met him in Yosemite. John Muir
Faith Best Men First Half Met Mountains Trees Enough Everybody Sierra Sayings One Half Weakened Would Admire Emerson Had No-One He Noble Reach Until Him Calling Read Sure Within Felt Came His Nor Years Yosemite Essays Them Warm Found Ever Interpret
The dispersal of juniper seeds is effected by the plum and cherry plan of hiring birds at the cost of their board, and thus obtaining the use of a pair of extra good wings. John Muir
Good Extra Birds Plum Seeds Cost Wings Thus Obtaining Cherry Hiring Effected Board Plan Use Pair
Under the Timber and Stone Act of 1878, which might well have been called the 'Dust and Ashes Act,' any citizen of the United States could take up one hundred and sixty acres of timber land and, by paying two dollars and a half an acre for it, obtain title. John Muir
Citizen Half Dust Hundred One Act States Could Take Obtain Well Timber Been Dollars Up Stone Any Sixty Which Title Ashes Land Might Acre Acres Act Paying United United States Two
One of the best ways to see tree flowers is to climb one of the tallest trees and to get into close, tingling touch with them, and then look broad. John Muir
Best Tree Trees Broad Ways See Touch Look Tallest Climb Close Get Them Then Flowers
There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords. John Muir
Power Control Creation Flower Glance Greatest Lords Times May Which
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