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Total quotes: 4

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John Muir

Birthname

Birthday: April 21, 1838

Birthplace: Dunbar, East Lothian, United Kingdom

Death: December 24, 1914

Educated At: University Of Wisconsin–Madison

Manner of Death: Natural Causes

Nationality: United States Of America, United Kingdom

Occupations: Essayist, Explorer, Conservationist, Autobiographer, Inventor

Spouse: Louisa Wanda Strentzel

Total quotes: 4

“I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found.”

— John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir,

Tagged: Fresh Air, Nature, Pure

“...the decent deathlike apathy of weary civilized people, in whom natural curiosity has been quenched in toil and care and poor, shallow comfort.”

— John Muir, Essential Muir: A Selection of John Muir's Best Writings (Essential) (California Legacy Book)

Tagged: Life

“Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.”

— John Muir, Our National Parks

Tagged: Nature, beauty, Energy, Winds, Fresh

“This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.”

— John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

Tagged: How To Think, Nature

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