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

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, Environmental, Mountain

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, Universe, Wilderness, Forest

The power of imagination makes us infinite. - John Muir

The power of imagination makes us infinite. John Muir

Inspirational, Power, Imagination, Us

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

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

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

Inspirational, Sun, Mountains, Greeting

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

Strength, Nature, Beauty, Health, Soul

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

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, Nature, Beautiful, Building, Rest

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, Beauty, Heart, Courage, Trees

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, Disease, Save

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, Great, Together, Storm

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, Never

It is easier to feel than to realize, or in any way explain, Yosemite grandeur. The magnitudes of the rocks and trees and streams are so delicately harmonized, they are mostly hidden. John Muir

Trees, Feel, Rocks, Way, Hidden, Realize

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, Find, Try, Out

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