Frases de John Muir
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John Muir fue un naturalista estadounidense. Escribió más de 300 artículos y 10 libros, donde narró sus viajes y exploraciones. Estas publicaciones le proporcionaron una importante tribuna para exponer y defender su filosofía sobre la naturaleza, la vida salvaje y la preservación de los grandes espacios, consiguiendo un notable impacto en la sociedad de su época. En 1892 fundó el «Sierra Club», el primer grupo conservacionista de la historia. Wikipedia  

✵ 21. abril 1838 – 24. diciembre 1914
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John Muir Frases y Citas

“El sol brilla no sobre nosotros sino en nosotros. Los ríos no fluyen más allá, sino a través de nosotros, emocionante hormigueo vibra en cada fibra y célula de la sustancia de nuestros cuerpos, haciéndonos deslizar y cantar. La ola de los árboles y las flores florecen en nuestros cuerpos como nuestras almas, y cada canción del pájaro, canción del viento y canción de la tremenda tormenta de las rocas en el corazón de las montañas es nuestra canción, nuestra y canta nuestro amor.”

John Muir

Original: «The sun shines not on us but in us. The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing. The trees wave and the flowers bloom in our bodies as well as our souls, and every bird song, wind song, and tremendous storm song of the rocks in the heart of the mountains is our song, our very own, and sings our love». <br class="br">Fuente: Mountain Thoughts, 7 de agosto, 2016, John Muir, Muir, John, John Muir, 1938, John of the Mountains, Linnie Marsh Wolfe, Sierra Club, 92, Inglés http://vault.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/writings/mountain_thoughts.aspx,

John Muir: Frases en inglés

“Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.”

John Muir

Frequently attributed to Muir without source. An extensive search of Muir's published and unpublished writings found several sharp and cogent observations concerning society (see above) but not this one.
Misattributed

“How terribly downright must seem the utterances of storms and earthquakes to those accustomed to the soft hypocrisies of society.”

John Muir

&quot; Flood-Storm in the Sierra http://books.google.com/books?id=Iy0GAQAAIAAJ&amp;pg=PA489&quot;, Overland Monthly, volume 14, number 6 (June 1875) pages 489-496 (at page 494) <br class="br">1870s

“Man has injured every animal he has touched.”

John Muir

11 February 1869, page 23
John of the Mountains, 1938

“God never made an ugly landscape. All that the sun shines on is beautiful, so long as it is wild.”

John Muir

pages 16-21 (at page 16)
1890s, The National Parks and Forest Reservations, 1895

“Lie down among the pines for a while, then get to plain pure white love-work … to help humanity and other mortals and the Lord.”

John Muir

letter to Mrs. J.D. Hooker http://www.westadamsheritage.org/katharine-putnam-hooker (19 September 1911); published in The Life and Letters of John Muir http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/life/life_and_letters/default.aspx (1924), chapter 17, II; and in John Muir&#x27;s Last Journey, edited by Michael P. Branch (Island Press, 2001), page 67 <br class="br">1910s

“Earth hath no sorrows that earth cannot heal, or heaven cannot heal, for the earth as seen in the clean wilds of the mountains is about as divine as anything the heart of man can conceive!”

John Muir

1872(?), page 99 <br class="br">Echoing the 1816 hymn Come Ye Disconsolate http://www.hymntime.com/tch/htm/c/y/d/cydiscon.htm by Thomas Moore: &quot;Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.&quot; <br class="br">John of the Mountains, 1938

“Sit down in climbing, and hear the pines sing.”

John Muir

page 428
John of the Mountains, 1938

“The snow is melting into music.”

John Muir

15 January 1873, page 107
John of the Mountains, 1938

“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

page 438 <br class="br">Last lines of the documentary film series &quot; The National Parks: America&#x27;s Best Idea http://www.pbs.org/nationalparks/&quot; by Ken Burns. <br class="br">John of the Mountains, 1938

“Brought into right relationship with the wilderness … he would see that his appropriation of earth's resources beyond his personal needs would only bring imbalance and beget ultimate loss and poverty for all.”

John Muir

This statement is not by Muir, but by his biographer Linnie Marsh Wolfe, in Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir (1945) page 188.
Misattributed

“The whole wilderness seems to be alive and familiar, full of humanity. The very stones seem talkative, sympathetic, brotherly.”

John Muir libro My First Summer in the Sierra

Terry Gifford, EWDB, page 277
1860s, My First Summer in the Sierra, 1869

“I drifted about from rock to rock, from stream to stream, from grove to grove. Where night found me, there I camped. When I discovered a new plant, I sat down beside it for a minute or a day, to make its acquaintance and hear what it had to tell. … I asked the boulders I met, whence they came and whither they were going.”

John Muir

&quot; Explorations in the Great Tuolumne Cañon http://books.google.com/books?id=ZikGAQAAIAAJ&amp;pg=P139&quot;, Overland Monthly, volume XI, number 2 (August 1873) pages 139-147 (at page 141); modified slightly and reprinted in John of the Mountains (1938), page 69 <br class="br">1870s

“[I first climbed Half Dome on] one of those brooding days that come just between Indian summer and winter, when the clouds are like living creatures.”

John Muir

"South Dome", San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin (part 11 of the 11 part series "Summering in the Sierra") dated 10 November 1875, published 18 November 1875; reprinted in John Muir: Summering in the Sierra, edited by Robert Engberg (University of Wisconsin Press, 1984) page 147
1870s

“John Muir has been a role model to generations of Californians and to conservationists around the world. He taught us to be active and to enjoy — but at the same time protect — our parks, our beaches, and our mountains.”

John Muir

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, announcing http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/tributes.aspx the selection of the &quot;John Muir-Yosemite Design&quot; for the California State Quarter (29 March 2004)

“Why should man value himself as more than a small part of the one great unit of creation? And what creature of all that the Lord has taken the pains to make is not essential to the completeness of that unit — the cosmos? The universe would be incomplete without man; but it would also be incomplete without the smallest transmicroscopic creature that dwells beyond our conceitful eyes and knowledge. From the dust of the earth, from the common elementary fund, the Creator has made Homo sapiens.”

John Muir libro A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf

From the same material he has made every other creature, however noxious and insignificant to us. They are earth-born companions and our fellow mortals. … This star, our own good earth, made many a successful journey around the heavens ere man was made, and whole kingdoms of creatures enjoyed existence and returned to dust ere man appeared to claim them. After human beings have also played their part in Creation's plan, they too may disappear without any general burning or extraordinary commotion whatever.
Fuente: A Thousand-Mile Walk To the Gulf, 1916, chapter 6: Cedar Keys, pages 160-161

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