John Muir Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by John Muir
John Muir Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from John Muir on Wise Famous Quotes.
The battle for conservation will go on endlessly. It is part of the universal battle between right and wrong.
Winds are advertisements of all they touch, however much or little we may be able to read them; telling their wanderings even by their scents alone.
Better to toil blindly, beating every stone in turn for grains of gold, whether they contain any or not, than lie down in apathetic decay.
Ink cannot tell the glow that lights me at this moment in turning to the mountains. I feel strong [enough] to leap Yosemite walls at a bound.
One can make a day of any size and regulate the rising and setting of his own sun and the brightness of its shining.
But to gain a perfect view, one must go yet further, over a curving brow to a slight shelf on the extreme brink.
I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found.
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.
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.
We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence ... to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
Who reports the works and ways of the clouds, those wondrous creations coming into being every day like freshly upheaved mountains?
The finest of the glacier meadow gardens lie ... imbedded in the upper pine forests like lakes of light.
They tell us that plants are not like man immortal, but are perishable-soul -less. I think that is something that we know exactly nothing about.
Only spread a fern-frond over a man's head and worldly cares are cast out, and freedom and beauty and peace come in.
Quench love, and what is left of a man's life but the folding of a few jointed bones and square inches of flesh? Who would call that life?
How terribly downright must be the utterances of storms and earthquakes to those accustomed to the soft hypocrisies of society.
I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.
There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties
Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get
people,storms, guardian angels, or sheep ...
people,storms, guardian angels, or sheep ...
What is worthwhile in life? I think it is worth living and dreaming. If you don't you may be dead anyhow - inside.
The practical importance of the preservation of our forests is augmented by their relations to climate, soil and streams.
I made these Sierra trips, carrying only a sackful of bread with a little tea and sugar, and was thus independent and free ...
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
Rivers flow not past, but through us; tingling, vibrating, exciting every cell and fiber in our bodies, making them sing and glide.
Even the sick should try these so-called dangerous passes, because for every unfortunate they kill, they cure a thousand.
What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
Of all the fire mountains which like beacons, once blazed along the Pacific Coast, Mount Rainier is the noblest.
The blessings of one mountain day, whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.
Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
Strange the faithless fuss made about taking a walk in the safest and pleasantest of all places, a wilderness.
Bread without butter or coffee without milk is an awful calamity, as if everything before being put in our mouth must first be held under a cow.
Everyone needs beauty as well as bread, places to play and pray, where nature heals and give strength to body and soul alike.
Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.
I bade adieu to mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God.
How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
How lavish is Nature building, pulling down, creating, destroying, chasing every material particle from form to form, ever changing, ever beautiful.
Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God.
In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others
I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
Everybody needs beauty ... places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.
I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
One of the best ways to see tree flowers is to climb one of the tallest trees and to get into close, tingling touch with them, and then look broad.