John Muir Quotes on Health

6 quotes

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

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

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.

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