John Muir Quotes About Environment
-
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. One fancies a heart like our own must be beating in every crystal and cell, and we feel like stopping to speak to the plants and animals as friendly fellow-mountaineers. Nature as a poet, an enthusiastic workingman, becomes more and more visible the farther and higher we go.
→ -
The battle we have fought, and are still fighting, for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong.
→ -
God cannot save them from fools.
→ -
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
→ -
The mountains are calling and I must go.
→ -
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.
→ -
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.
→ -
I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found.
→ -
I don't agree with you in saying that in all human minds there is poetry. Man as he came from the hand of his Maker was poetic in both mind and body, but the gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
→ -
I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
→ -
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.
→ -
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
→ -
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
→
Related Authors
-
John Burroughs Essayist -
Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist -
Donald Worster Professor -
Ansel Adams Photographer -
Mary Hunter Austin Writer -
-
Edward Abbey Author -
George Bird Grinnell Anthropologist -
Theodore Roosevelt 26th U.S. President -
Rachel Carson Marine biologist -
-
David R. Brower Environmentalist -
John James Audubon Ornithologist -
Joseph LeConte Geologist -
Aldo Leopold Author -
Henry David Thoreau Author -
Gifford Pinchot Former Governor of Pennsylvania -
Gaylord Nelson Former United States Senator -
Upton Sinclair Author -
Alexander von Humboldt Naturalist