Frases de John Muir
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John Muir , foi um preservacionista, proprietário rural, explorador e escritor escocês-americano, que teve papel fundamental na criação das primeiras áreas protegidas americanas e que é considerado um dos fundadores do movimento conservacionista moderno.Para ele o homem era parte da própria natureza, e como tal não pode ser dotado de direitos maiores que os animais . Além disso, profundamente influenciado pelo movimento romântico, via a natureza como algo intrinsecamente belo e carregado de valor espiritual e religioso, e que deveria ser protegido de maneira radical da influência negativa aportada pelo homem.

Visitou todos os continentes da Terra, com exceção daquele que não possui árvores - a Antártica, sobre os quais escrevia procurando influenciar seus contemporâneos; Dentre os epítetos que recebeu estão: "Pai dos Parques Nacionais dos EUA", "Profeta da Vida Selvagem" e "Cidadão do Universo". Também foi fundador da ONG Sierra Club, uma das primeiras associações do mundo a ter como objetivo a proteção da natureza.

Os escritos de Muir influenciaram Theodore Roosevelt na criação do Parque Nacional de Yosemite, e muitas barragens deixaram de ser erguidas ou foram interrompidas em territórios dos parques nacionais graças a suas ideias. Suas ideias também tiveram grande influência sobre o conservacionismo e a ética ambiental, que ganharam força a partir da segunda metade do século XX.Sobre seu importante papel histórico, o cineasta documentarista Ken Burns diria que "Por tudo que sabemos dele... [John Muir] ascendeu ao panteão dos maiores indivíduos de nosso país; estou me referindo ao nível de Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., Thomas Jefferson, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Jackie Robinson - pessoas que tiveram um efeito transformador sobre quem somos." Wikipedia  

✵ 21. Abril 1838 – 24. Dezembro 1914
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John Muir: 185   citações 6   Curtidas

John Muir frases e citações

John Muir: Frases em inglês

“This natural beauty-hunger is made manifest … in our magnificent National Parks … Nature's sublime wonderlands, the admiration and joy of the world.”

The Yosemite http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/writings/the_yosemite/ (1912), chapter 15: Hetch Hetchy Valley
1910s

“No portion of the world is so barren as not to yield a rich and precious harvest of divine truth.”

"Arctic Coal Mines — The Diomede Bay Islands", San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin (part 18 of 21 part series "Cruise of the Corwin") dated 25 August 1881, published 25 October 1881; reprinted in The Cruise of the Corwin http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/writings/cruise_of_the_corwin/default.aspx (1917), chapter 17: Meeting the Point Barrow Expedition
1880s

“No one of the rocks seems to call me now, nor any of the distant mountains. Surely this Merced and Tuolumne chapter of my life is done.”

letter to Mrs. Ezra S. Carr, from Yosemite Valley (September 1874); published in William Federic Badè, The Life and Letters of John Muir http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/life/life_and_letters/default.aspx (1924), chapter 11: On Widening Currents
1870s

“Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love. God does not appear, and flow out, only from narrow chinks and round bored wells here and there in favored races and places, but He flows in grand undivided currents, shoreless and boundless over creeds and forms and all kinds of civilizations and peoples and beasts, saturating all and fountainizing all.”

letter http://digitalcollections.pacific.edu/cdm/ref/collection/muirletters/id/9847/show/9846 to Catharine Merrill, from New Sentinel Hotel, Yosemite Valley (9 June 1872); published in William Federic Badè, The Life and Letters of John Muir http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/life/life_and_letters/default.aspx (1924), chapter 9: Persons and Problems
1870s

“Storms of every sort, torrents, earthquakes, cataclysms, "convulsions of nature," etc., however mysterious and lawless at first sight they may seem, are only harmonious notes in the song of creation, varied expressions of God's love.”

" The Fountains and Streams of the Yosemite National Park http://books.google.com/books?id=2CsRAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA556", The Atlantic Monthly, volume LXXXVII, number 519 (January 1901) pages 556-565 (at page 565); reprinted in Our National Parks http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/writings/our_national_parks/ (1901), chapter 8: The Fountains and Streams of the Yosemite National Park
1900s, Our National Parks (1901)

“The rugged old Norsemen spoke of death as Heimgang — home-going. So the snow-flowers go home when they melt and flow to the sea, and the rock-ferns, after unrolling their fronds to the light and beautifying the rocks, roll them up close again in the autumn and blend with the soil. Myriads of rejoicing living creatures, daily, hourly, perhaps every moment sink into death’s arms, dust to dust, spirit to spirit — waited on, watched over, noticed only by their Maker, each arriving at its own heaven-dealt destiny. All the merry dwellers of the trees and streams, and the myriad swarms of the air, called into life by the sunbeam of a summer morning, go home through death, wings folded perhaps in the last red rays of sunset of the day they were first tried. Trees towering in the sky, braving storms of centuries, flowers turning faces to the light for a single day or hour, having enjoyed their share of life’s feast — all alike pass on and away under the law of death and love. Yet all are our brothers and they enjoy life as we do, share heaven’s blessings with us, die and are buried in hallowed ground, come with us out of eternity and return into eternity. 'Our little lives are rounded with a sleep.”

pages 439-440
("Trees towering … into eternity" are the next-to-last lines of the documentary film " John Muir in the New World http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/john-muir-in-the-new-world/watch-the-full-documentary-film/1823/" (American Masters), produced, directed, and written by Catherine Tatge.)
John of the Mountains, 1938

“I don't think Mr. Harriman is very rich. He has not as much money as I have. I have all I want and Mr. Harriman has not.”

memorial volume Edward Henry Harriman http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/writings/edward_henry_harriman.aspx (1911)
1910s

“There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.”

Fonte: A Thousand-Mile Walk To the Gulf, 1916, chapter 5: Through Florida Swamps and Forests, page 151

“Good walkers can go anywhere in these hospitable mountains without artificial ways.”

letter to Howard Palmer (12 December 1912); published in William Federic Badè, The Life and Letters of John Muir http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/life/life_and_letters/default.aspx (1924), chapter 17, II
1910s

“Many lawless mysteries vanish, and harmonies take their places.”

Fonte: 1900s, Our National Parks (1901), chapter 9: The Sequoia and General Grant National Parks

“If I were so time-poor as to have only one day to spend in Yosemite I should start at daybreak, say at three o'clock in midsummer, with a pocketful of any sort of dry breakfast stuff, for Glacier Point, Sentinel Dome, the head of Illilouette Fall, Nevada Fall, the top of Liberty Cap, Vernal Fall and the wild boulder-choked River Cañon.”

The Yosemite http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/writings/the_yosemite/ (1912), chapter 12: How Best to Spend One's Yosemite Time
Advice for visitors to Yosemite given by John Muir at age 74 years. Compare advice given by the 37-year-old Muir above.
1910s

“Most interesting forest I have seen in my whole life.”

journal entry http://digitalcollections.pacific.edu/cdm/ref/collection/muirjournals/id/3766/show/3742 (24 October 1911) concerning Araucaria braziliensis in southern Brazil; published in John Muir's Last Journey, edited by Michael P. Branch (Island Press, 2001), page 88
1910s

“I always enjoyed the hearty society of a snowstorm.”

19(?) July 1890, page 321
John of the Mountains, 1938