john-muir Quotes About wilderness

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“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.”

“In God's wildness lies the hope of the world-the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.”

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Author:John Muir

“Wilderness is not only a haven for native plants and animals but it is also a refuge from society. Its a place to go to hear the wind and little else, see the stars and the galaxies, smell the pine trees, feel the cold water, touch the sky and the ground at the same time, listen to coyotes, eat the fresh snow, walk across the desert sands, and realize why its good to go outside of the city and the suburbs. Fortunately, there is wilderness just outside the limits of the cities and the suburbs in most of the United States, especially in the West.”

“The battle we have fought, and are still fighting for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong, and we cannot expect to see the end of it. …So we must count on watching and striving for these trees, and should always be glad to find anything so surely good and noble to strive for.”

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Author:John Muir

“To sit in solitude, to think in solitude with only the music of the stream and the cedar to break the flow of silence, there lies the value of wilderness.”

Thinking Lying Values Silence Break Solitude Flow Streams Wilderness Cedars

Author:John Muir

“Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen”

Men Speak Wise Mountain Wilderness Climbing Hiking Hiking In The Mountains

Author:John Muir

“Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods.”

Green Woods Wilderness Repose

Book:John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

Source: John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.”

Source: The Yosemite

“All wilderness seems to be full of tricks and plans to drive and draw us up into God's light.”

Light Seems Spiritual Plans Draws Tricks Wilderness

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Source: JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more

“Wilderness is a necessity... there must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls.”

Humans Soul Human Beings Wilderness

Author:John Muir

“No dogma taught by the present civilization seems to form so insuperable an obstacle in a way of a right understanding of the relations which culture sustains as to wilderness, as that which declares that the world was made especially for the uses of men. Every animal, plant, and crystal controverts it in the plainest terms. Yet it is taught from century to century as something ever new and precious, and in the resulting darkness the enormous conceit is allowed to go unchallenged.”

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Author:John Muir

“Go quietly alone, no harm will befall you.”

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Book:STEEP TRAILS: California - Utah - Nevada - Washington - Oregon - The Grand Canyon: Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Essays and Wilderness Studies from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf & Picturesque California

Source: STEEP TRAILS: California - Utah - Nevada - Washington - Oregon - The Grand Canyon: Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Essays and Wilderness Studies from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf & Picturesque California

“I should study Nature's laws in all their crossings and unions; I should follow magnetic streams to their source and follow the shores of our magnetic oceans. I should go among the rays of the aurora, and follow them to their beginnings, and study their dealings and communications with other powers and expressions of matter.”

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Book:The Wilderness World of John Muir

Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir

“Wilderness is a necessity ... They will see what I meant in time. There must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls. Food and drink is not all. There is the spiritual. In some it is only a germ, of course, but the germ will grow.”

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Author:John Muir

“In the eternal youth of Nature, you may renew your own.”

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Book:JOHN MUIR’S CALIFORNIA COLLECTION: My First Summer in the Sierra, Picturesque California, The Mountains of California, The Yosemite & Our National Parks (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Writings and Wilderness Essays

Source: JOHN MUIR’S CALIFORNIA COLLECTION: My First Summer in the Sierra, Picturesque California, The Mountains of California, The Yosemite & Our National Parks (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Writings and Wilderness Essays

“While cares will drop off like autumn leaves.”

“I wish I knew where I was going. Doomed to be carried of the spirit into the wilderness, I suppose. I wish I could be more moderate in my desires, but I cannot, and so there is no rest.”

Spirit Desire Wish Destiny Wilderness Doomed Moderates

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Source: JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more

“Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on seas and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.”

Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir

“Come to the woods, for here is rest.”

Woods Wilderness

Book:John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

Source: John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

“It is a vast wilderness of rocks in a sea of light, colored and glowing like oak and maple in autumn, when the sun gold is richest”

Light Sun Sea Rocks Gold Autumn Wilderness Glowing Oaks Maple

Book:The Grand Canon of the Colorado

Source: The Grand Canon of the Colorado

“God cannot save them from fools.”

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Author:John Muir

“No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.”

Perfect Wilderness Glaciers Synonym

Book:The Wilderness World of John Muir

Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir

“Strange the faithless fuss made about taking a walk in the safest and pleasantest of all places, a wilderness.”

Made Walks Strange Wilderness Faithless

Book:To Yosemite and Beyond: Writings from the Years 1863-1875

Source: To Yosemite and Beyond: Writings from the Years 1863-1875

“In this silent, serene wilderness the weary can gain a heart-bath in perfect peace.”

Heart Perfect Gains Silent Wilderness Weary Baths Serene Perfect Peace

Author:John Muir

“The most distinctive, and perhaps the most impressive, characteristic of American scenery is its wilderness.”

Characteristics Wilderness Impressive Scenery Distinctive

Author:John Muir

“You know that I have not lagged behind in the work of exploring our grand wilderness, and in calling everybody to come and enjoy the thousand blessings they have to offer.”

Knows Enjoy Behinds Calling Blessing Offers Thousand Wilderness Exploring

Book:JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more

Source: JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more

“If I should be fated to walk no more with Nature, be compelled to leave all I most devoutly love in the wilderness, return to civilization and be twisted into the characterless cable of society, then these sweet, free, cumberless rovings will be as chinks and slits on life's horizon, through which I may obtain glimpses of the treasures that lie in God's wilds beyond my reach.”

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Book:The High Sierra of California

Source: The High Sierra of California

“So abundant and novel are the objects of interest in a pure wilderness that unless you are pursuing special studies it matters little where you go, or how often to the same place. Wherever you chance to be always seems at the moment of all places the best; and you feel that there can be no happiness in this world or in any other for those who may not be happy there.”

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Book:Travels in Alaska

Source: Travels in Alaska

“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.”

“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.”

“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.”

Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays

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

Source: STEEP TRAILS: California - Utah - Nevada - Washington - Oregon - The Grand Canyon: Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Essays and Wilderness Studies from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf & Picturesque California

“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.”

Source: John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings

“The mountains are calling and I must go.”

Source: John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings

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

Source: My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition

“The power of imagination makes us infinite.”

Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir

“How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!”

Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays

“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”

Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir

“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.”

Source: My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition

“To the lover of pure wildness Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.”

World Country Wonderful Lovers Travel Wilderness Alaska

Author:John Muir

“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.”

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Book:STEEP TRAILS: California - Utah - Nevada - Washington - Oregon - The Grand Canyon: Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Essays and Wilderness Studies from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf & Picturesque California

Source: STEEP TRAILS: California - Utah - Nevada - Washington - Oregon - The Grand Canyon: Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Essays and Wilderness Studies from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf & Picturesque California

“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.”

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Book:The Wilderness World of John Muir

Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir

“Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!”

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Book:The Wilderness World of John Muir

Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir

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