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1838–1914 Scotland
John Muir (21 April 1838 – 24 December 1914) was a Scottish-American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States. His letters, essays, and telling of his adventures in nature, especially in the Sierra Nevada of California, have been read by millions.
Scotland Activists Botanists Engineers Environmentalists Also known as: Muir, John
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There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted.
Our National Parks (1901)
The world, we are told, was made especially for man — a presumption not supported by all the facts.
No portion of the world is so barren as not to yield a rich and precious harvest of divine truth.
There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life.
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
One touch of nature makes all the world kin.
The Cruise of the Corwin (1917)
Man has injured every animal he has touched.
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
Living artificially in towns, we are sickly, and never come to know ourselves.
The world's big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
Nature in her green, tranquil woods heals and soothes all afflictions.
I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness.
Many lawless mysteries vanish, and harmonies take their places.
Our National Parks (1901)
None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild.
Our National Parks (1901)
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike.
The Yosemite (1912)
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
The Mountains of California (1894)
I always enjoyed the hearty society of a snowstorm.
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