How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

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About John Muir

Portrait of John Muir

John Muir ( MURE; April 21, 1838 – December 24, 1914), also known as "John of the Mountains" and "Father of the National Parks", was a Scottish-born American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, botanist, zoologist, glaciologist, and early advocate for the preservation of wilderness in the United States.

More quotations from John Muir

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 alike.

No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering matter into stars, or planning the movements of water, or gardening—still all is Beauty!

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.

When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.

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. None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild.

More quotations tagged with “mountains”

I learn something every time I go into the mountains.

—Michael Kennedy

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

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Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.

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Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

—Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

—Hosea Ballou

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History

15 Nov 2014 Added