Logo
Quote by John Muir
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed natur

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual. – John Muir

Other quotes by John Muir

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. – John Muir

Category:
alone
Author
John Muir
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Nature
category

Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal. – Xun Zi

Category:
Nature

The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen mens apples and head their cabbages. – Cyrano de Bergerac

Category:
Nature

Water is the driving force of all nature. – Leonardo da Vinci

Category:
Nature

Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit. – Thomas Huxley

Category:
Nature

Random Quotes

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder. – Joseph Wood Krutch

Category:
inspirational

What has happened is that to some degree they have taken an attitude where they dont listen to demos of diverse subject matters. Theyre looking for demos like the record the guy on the left just did. – Grandmaster Flash

Category:
Attitude

The Declaration of Independence only holds as a truth of the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. – Author unknown

Category:
Happiness

Fieldes have eies and woods have eares. – John Heywood, 1565

Category:
Nature