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

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

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Author Profession: Environmentalist

Nationality: American

Born: April 21, 1838

Died: December 24, 1914

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Aldo Leopold, Paul Hawken, John Ray, Luther Burbank, Donella Meadows, Joseph Wood Krutch, Roger Tory Peterson, Garrett Hardin

Topics

Every, Far, He, More, Nature, Receives, Seeks, Than, Walk

Quotes to Explore

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

Nature, Heart, Mountain, Environmental

The power of imagination makes us infinite. - John Muir

The power of imagination makes us infinite. John Muir

Inspirational, Power, Imagination, Us

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. - John Muir

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. John Muir

Nature, Forest, Wilderness, Universe

The mountains are calling and I must go. - John Muir

The mountains are calling and I must go. John Muir

Nature, Mountains, Go, Calling, Must

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

Beauty, Strength, Nature, Health, Soul

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

Beauty, Stars, Storm, Great, Space

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, Nature, Home, Struggle, Weather

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! - John Muir

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! John Muir

Inspirational, Mountains, Sun, Greeting

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

Light, God, Mountain, Calm, Windows, Us

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

Nature, God, Trees, Fools, Save, Drought

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

Beauty, Strength, Courage, Heart, Forest

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

Storm, Tree, Trees, Enthusiasm, Silent

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. - John Muir

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. John Muir

Environmental, Universe, Try, Find, Pick

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, Rocks

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