John Muir Nature Quotes

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John Muir quotes on other topics

John Muir has written about various topics extensively and has many famous quotes about;

Alone Beauty Environmental God Good Health Imagination Inspirational Poetry Power Spiritual Strength Travel Wisdom

Nature quotes by other authors

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

What did John Muir say about Nature?

John Muir has written many quotes about Nature. E.g.,

  • 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.
  • Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
  • 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.

What are the top most famous Nature quotes by John Muir?

Here are the top most famous quotes about Nature by John Muir.

  • 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.
  • Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
  • 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.
  • The mountains are calling and I must go.
  • The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
  • 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.
  • In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
  • The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.