46 ordspråk av John Muir
John Muir
John Muir föddes den April 21st 1838 och dog den 24 December 1914 - Scottish writer
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 I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. |
| In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. |
| 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. |
| keep in view the common good of the people for all time. |
| Memories may escape the action of the will, may sleep a long time, but when stirred by the right influence, though that influence be light as a shadow, they flash into full stature and life with everything in place |
| Men use care in purchasing a horse, and are neglectful in choosing friends |
| Most people are on the world, not in it - having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them - undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate |
| Nature chose for a tool, not the earthquake or lightning to rend and split asunder, not the stormy torrent or eroding rain, but the tender snow-flowers noiselessly falling through unnumbered centuries. |
| Nature chose for a tool, not the earthquake or lightning to rend and split asunder, not the stormy torrent or eroding rain, but the tender snow-flowers noiselessly falling through unnumbered centuries. |
| Of all the fire mountains which like beacons, once blazed along the Pacific Coast, Mount Rainier is the noblest. |
| 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 man. |
| Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| The 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. |
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