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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
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
Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humour is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.
— Frank Muir
Come to the woods, for here is rest.
— 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
[The Koran is one of] the most stubborn enemies of Civilisation, Liberty, and the Truth which the world has yet known.
— William 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
One can make a day of any size
— 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
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
Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
— 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
God never made an ugly landscape. All that sun shines on is beautiful, so long as it is wild.
— 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
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
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
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
John Muir, Earth - planet, Universe
[Muir's home address, as inscribed on the inside front cover of his first field journal] — John Muir
[Muir's home address, as inscribed on the inside front cover of his first field journal] — 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
How lavish is Nature building, pulling down, creating, destroying, chasing every material particle from form to form, ever changing, ever beautiful.
— 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
Nothing truly wild is unclean.
— John Muir
I never saw a discontented tree.
— 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
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
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
The tragedy of Karbala decided not only the fate of the Caliphate, but also of Mohammadan kingdoms long after the Caliphate had waned and disappeared.
— William Muir
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— Elspeth Muir
Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
— 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
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
How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
— John Muir
Sometimes we think of the nations lying asleep,
Curled blindly in impenetrable sorrow,
And then the thought confounds us with its strangeness. — Edwin Muir
Curled blindly in impenetrable sorrow,
And then the thought confounds us with its strangeness. — Edwin Muir
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
— 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
I bade adieu to mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God.
— John Muir
I have observed in foolish awe
The dateless mid-days of the law
And seen indifferent justice done
By everyone on everyone. — Edwin Muir
The dateless mid-days of the law
And seen indifferent justice done
By everyone on everyone. — Edwin Muir
Even the sick should try these so-called dangerous passes, because for every unfortunate they kill, they cure a thousand.
— 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
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
It has been said that a bride's attitude towards her betrothed can be summed up in three words: Aisle. Alter. Hymn.
— Frank Muir
The sun shines not on us but in us.
— John Muir
Of all the fire mountains which like beacons, once blazed along the Pacific Coast, Mount Rainier is the noblest.
— John Muir
The blessings of one mountain day, whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.
— John Muir
Strange the faithless fuss made about taking a walk in the safest and pleasantest of all places, a wilderness.
— John Muir
The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts.
— John Muir
Take me into the mountains
— John Muir
Longing for the mountains
— 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
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
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
But far within him something cried For the great tragedy to start, The pang in lingering mercy fall And sorrow break upon his heart. - EDWIN MUIR
— Doris Lessing
When a man plants a tree, he plants himself.
— John Muir