The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
Quote by John Muir
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The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
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John Muir Quotes
- The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
- 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.
- In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
- God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.
- The power of imagination makes us infinite.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The mountains are calling and I must go.
- 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.
Best Quotes
- I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth.
- President Obama clearly cannot run on his record. All he's offering is more of the same. That's not good. Look at the economy. It's stagnating. And so, what they're now going to try and do is bring this campaign down to little things, distractions, distortions, smear, fear, anger, frustration.
- It's only a Hyena that looks back to rotten meat and gets back to consume it, but a lion; legend of the jungle! Eats while it is fresh, when it is rotten, it is useless.
- The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
- The purpose of a business is to create a customer.
- It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That's where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head.
- The power of imagination makes us infinite.
- America's a very traumatized society.
- I believe in getting into hot water it keeps you clean.
- Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.