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Environment Quotes by John Muir
- The battle we have fought, and are still fighting, for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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 mountains are calling and I must go.
- The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
- 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…
- When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
- I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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