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I ... am always glad to touch the living rock again and dip my hand in the high mountain air. — John Muir

Tug on anything in nature and you will find it connected to everything else. — John Muir

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. — John Muir

Who wouldn't be a mountaineer! Up here all the world's prizes seem nothing — John Muir

Come to the woods, for here is rest. — John Muir

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! — John Muir

The Big Tree is Nature's forest masterpiece, and so far as I know, the greatest of living things. — John Muir

God cannot save them from fools. — John Muir

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. — John Muir

Look up and down and round about you.! — John Muir

Going to the mountains is going home. — John Muir

Galen Clark was the best mountaineer I ever met, and one of the kindest and most amiable of all my mountain friends. — John Muir

No right way is easy in this rough world. We must risk our lives to save them. — John Muir

Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world. — John Muir

One can make a day of any size — John Muir

I am well again, I came to life in the cool winds and crystal waters of the mountains. — John Muir

Wherever we go in the mountains, or indeed in any of God's wild fields, we find more than we seek. — John Muir

Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind. — John Muir

When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent. — John Muir

But to gain a perfect view, one must go yet further, over a curving brow to a slight shelf on the extreme brink. — John Muir

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

The most distinctive, and perhaps the most impressive, characteristic of American scenery is its wilderness. — John Muir

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

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

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. — John Muir

And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul — John Muir

I will follow my instincts, and be myself for good or ill. — John Muir

Of all the mountain ranges I have climbed, I like the Sierra Nevada the best. — John Muir

This is Nature's own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended. — John Muir

Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before. — John Muir

Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm. — John Muir

The grand show is eternal
It is always sunrise somewhere — John Muir

In this silent, serene wilderness the weary can gain a heart-bath in perfect peace. — John Muir

Lizards of every temper, style, and color dwell here, seemingly as happy and companionable as the birds and squirrels. — John Muir

The power of imagination is infinite. — John Muir

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

Doubly happy, however, is the man to whom lofty mountain tops are within reach. — John Muir

God never made an ugly landscape. All that sun shines on is beautiful, so long as it is wild. — John Muir

Who reports the works and ways of the clouds, those wondrous creations coming into being every day like freshly upheaved mountains? — John Muir

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

Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way. — John Muir

Man has injured every animal he has touched. — John Muir

My meals were easily made, for they were all alike and simple, only a cupful of tea and bread. — John Muir

Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal. — John Muir

It may not be easy, life isn't easy, but dreams keep you alive. — John Muir

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

learn to live like the wild animals, — John Muir

I bade adieu to mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God. — John Muir

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. — John Muir

Going into the woods, is going home — John Muir

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. — John Muir

It is a fine thing to see people in hot earnest about anything. — John Muir

I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong. — John Muir

The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm. — John Muir

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. — John Muir

In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others — John Muir

Nothing truly wild is unclean. — John Muir

One day's exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books. — John Muir

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. — John Muir

Man is always and everywhere a blight on the landscape. — John Muir

How lavish is Nature building, pulling down, creating, destroying, chasing every material particle from form to form, ever changing, ever beautiful. — John Muir

John Muir, Earth - planet, Universe
[Muir's home address, as inscribed on the inside front cover of his first field journal] — John Muir

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. — John Muir

How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation! — John Muir

Sequoia seeds have flat wings, and glint and glance in their flight like a boy's kite. — John Muir

When you tug at a single thing in the universe, you'll find its attached to everything else. — John Muir

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

The sun shines not on us but in us. — John Muir

Strange the faithless fuss made about taking a walk in the safest and pleasantest of all places, a wilderness. — John Muir

Everyone needs beauty as well as bread, places to play and pray, where nature heals and give strength to body and soul alike. — John Muir

The power of imagination makes us infinite. — John Muir

Nature in her green, tranquil woods heals and soothes all afflictions. — John Muir

The mountains are fountains not only of rivers and fertile soil, but of men. — John Muir

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

Even the sick should try these so-called dangerous passes, because for every unfortunate they kill, they cure a thousand. — John Muir

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

When a man plants a tree, he plants himself. — John Muir

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. — John Muir

Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them ... may we be filled with the Holy Ghost. — John Muir

Large flocks of butterflies, all kinds of happy insects, seem to be in a perfect fever of joy and sportive gladness. — John Muir

Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever. — John Muir

Wherever we go in the mountains, we find more than we seek. — John Muir

Take me into the mountains — John Muir

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

Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality. — John Muir

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. — John Muir

The blessings of one mountain day, whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever. — John Muir

Of all the fire mountains which like beacons, once blazed along the Pacific Coast, Mount Rainier is the noblest. — John Muir

Longing for the mountains — John Muir

Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant. — John Muir

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. — John Muir

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! — John Muir

No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. — John Muir

I never saw a discontented tree. — John Muir

A man, in his books, may be said to walk the earth a long time after he is gone. — John Muir

We were glad, however, to get within reach of information ... — John Muir

As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God's ways — John Muir

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. — John Muir

God has to nearly kill us sometimes, to teach us lessons. — John Muir

Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold. — John Muir