John Muir Quotes

Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in fu...

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows ...

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.

The coniferous forests of the Yosemite Park, and of the Sierra in general, surpass all others of the...

Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally. But in some of na...

Even the sick should try these so-called dangerous passes, because for every unfortunate they kill, ...

What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how ...

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the ...

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the ...

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the ...

Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.

Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward ...

It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.

This time it is real — all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!

Nothing truly wild is unclean.

We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, fill...

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing the...

This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a sh...

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, w...

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spi...

Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in know...

If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themsel...

On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death. ... Let children walk with natur...

The world, we are told, was made especially for man — a presumption not supported by all the facts.

These temple destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism, seem to have a perfect contempt for Nat...

Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

Bread without flesh is a good diet, as on many botanical excursions I have proved. Tea also may easi...

Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm,waving, swirling, tossing thei...

It seems strange that bears, so fond of all sorts of flesh, running the risks of guns and fires and ...

During my first years in the Sierra, I was ever calling on everybody within reach to admire them, bu...

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

In all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden, ...

Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like ...

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing ...

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests...

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend ...

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go q...

Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveli...

The world's big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. -...

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirli...

John Muir, Earth — planet, Un

If for a moment you are inclined to regard these taluses as mere draggled, chaotic dumps, climb to t...

Come to the woods, for here is rest, ...climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's pea...

The making of the far-famed New York Central Park was opposed by even good men, with misguided pluck...

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 ch...

When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and isl...

The waving of a pine tree on the top of a mountain - a magic wand in Nature's hand - every devout mo...

Going to the woods is going home.

I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Bapt...

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

When we try to pick out any­thing by itself, we find it hitched to every­thing else in the Uni­verse...

The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart o...

Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in ...

Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine...

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings: Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine into f...

The sun shines not on us but in us.

To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's bragga...

I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any mea...

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness....

The radiance in some places is so great as to be fairly dazzling . . . every crystal every flower a...

Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.

There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognize...

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast roote...

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and gi...

Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All ar...

There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious...

Over the summit, I saw the so-called Mono desert lying dreamily silent in the thick, purple light --...

Long, blue, spiky-edged shadows crept out across the snow-fields, while a rosy glow, at first scarce...

I was awakened by a tremendous earthquake, and though I hadn ever before enjoyed a storm of this sor...

When I was a child in Scotland, I was fond of everything that was wild, and all my life I've been gr...

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.