Quotes and wishes: «John Muir Day»
A few minutes ago every tree was excitedA 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 Quotes and wishes: «John Muir Day»
Another glorious dayAnother glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
John Muir Quotes and wishes: «John Muir Day»
Every leaf seems to speakWhen one is alone at night in the depths of these woods, the stillness is at once awful and sublime. Every leaf seems to speak.
John Muir Quotes and wishes: «John Muir Day»
Everybody needs beauty as well as breadEverybody 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 Quotes and wishes: «John Muir Day»
Fighting for the forestsThe 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.
(The National Parks and Forest Reservations)
John Muir Quotes and wishes: «John Muir Day»
Quotes and wishes: «John Muir Day»
God has cared for these treesGod 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 Quotes and wishes: «John Muir Day»
Going homeThousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.
Our National Parks, 1901
John Muir Quotes and wishes: «John Muir Day»
I never saw a discontented treeI 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.
John Muir Quotes and wishes: «John Muir Day»
Quotes and wishes: «John Muir Day»
Keep close to Nature’s heartKeep 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 Quotes and wishes: «John Muir Day»
No holier templeOne 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 Quotes and wishes: «John Muir Day»
Take a course in good water and airTake 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.
John Muir Quotes and wishes: «John Muir Day»
The clearest way into the UniverseThe clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
John Muir Quotes and wishes: «John Muir Day»
The glance of a flowerThere is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation’s braggart lords.
John Muir Quotes and wishes: «John Muir Day»
The gross heathenism of civilizationThe gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
John Muir Quotes and wishes: «John Muir Day»
Quotes and wishes: «John Muir Day»
Trees go wanderingTrees 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!
John Muir Quotes and wishes: «John Muir Day»
Under cover of the woodsHow many hearts with warm red blood in them are beating under cover of the woods, and how many teeth and eyes are shining! A multitude of animal people, intimately related to us, but of whose lives we know almost nothing, are as busy about their own affairs as we are about ours.
Our National Parks, 1901
John Muir Quotes and wishes: «John Muir Day»
When we try to pick out anything by itselfWhen we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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