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Heart Quotes by John Muir
- 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…
- Bears are made of the same dust as we, and they breathe the same winds and drink of the same waters. A bear's days are…
- How many hearts with warm, red blood in them are beating under cover of the woods, and how many teeth and eyes are shining? A…
- Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts; and if people in general could…
- I never have held death in contempt, though in the course of my explorations I have oftentimes felt that to meet one's fate on a…
- Nature is always lovely, invincible, glad, whatever is done and suffered by her creatures. All scars she heals, whether in rocks or water or sky…
- Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way." ... "Surely…
- Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts . . .
- 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…
- One 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…
- The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart…
- In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
- As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the…
- The sun shines not on us but in us. The rivers flow not past, but through us. Thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of…
More Heart Quotes
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place. — Lance Armstrong
- While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism. — Mary Astell
- I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help you, that's… — Rodney Atkins
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood
- If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it… — Margaret Atwood
- Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart. — Kevyn Aucoin