In every walk with nature one receives far more th... -John Muir

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

John Muir , Environmentalist
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John Muir Quotes to Explore

Bread without flesh is a good diet, as on many botanical excursions I have proved. Tea also may easily be ignored. Just bread and water and delightful...
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....
Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and bagg...
To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world....
The making of the far-famed New York Central Park was opposed by even good men, with misguided pluck, perseverance, and ingenuity, but straight right ...
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....
Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God....
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....
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual....
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all si...

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I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something; I think that's human nature....
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping o...
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God....
For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all....
The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also....
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature....
Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fa...
To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and...
To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural proce...
Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake....