Doubly happy, however, is the man to whom lofty mountain tops are within reach. — John Muir Copy Share Image
The mountains are fountains not only of rivers and fertile soil, but of men. — John Muir Copy Share Image
Man and other civilized animals are the only creatures that ever become dirty. — John Muir Copy Share Image
A man, in his books, may be said to walk the earth a long time after he is gone. — John Muir Copy Share Image
A little pure wildness is the one great present want, both of men and sheep. — John Muir Copy Share Image
The United States government has always been proud of the welcome it has extended to good men of every nation, seeking freedom… — John Muir Copy Share Image
So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within… — John Muir Copy Share Image
In every country the mountains are fountains, not only of rivers but of men. Therefore we all are born mountaineers, the offspring… — John Muir Copy Share Image
The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Only spread a fern-frond over a man's head and worldly cares are cast out, and freedom and beauty and peace come in. — John Muir Copy Share Image
Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Quench love, and what is left of a man's life but the folding of a few jointed bones and square inches of… — John Muir Copy Share Image
They tell us that plants are not like man immortal, but are perishable-soul -less. I think that is something that we know… — John Muir Copy Share Image
I don't agree with you in saying that in all human minds there is poetry. Man as he came from the hand… — John Muir Copy Share Image
The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able… — John Muir Copy Share Image
The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts... Why should man… — John Muir Copy Share Image
In nothing does man, with his grand notions of heaven and charity, show forth his innate, low-bred, wild animalism more clearly than… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Thus godlike sympathy grows and thrives and spreads far beyond the teachings of churches and schools, where too often the mean, blinding,… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Happy will be the men who, having the power and the love and the benevolent forecast to [create a park], will do… — John Muir Copy Share Image
So extraordinary is Nature with her choicest treasures, spending plant beauty as she spends sunshine, pouring it forth into land and sea,… — John Muir Copy Share Image
I have precious little sympathy for the selfish propriety of civilized man, and if aware of races should occur between the wild… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Tell me what you will of the benefactions of city civilization, of the sweet security of streets-all as part of the natural… — John Muir Copy Share Image
We all travel the milky way together, trees and men; but it never occurred to me until this storm-day, while swinging in… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed,-chased and hunted down as… — John Muir Copy Share Image
In studying the fate of our forest king, we have thus far considered the action of purely natural causes only; but, unfortunately,… — John Muir Copy Share Image
How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this glorious starry firmament for a roof! In such places… — John Muir Copy Share Image
No dogma taught by the present civilization seems to form so insuperable an obstacle in a way of a right understanding of… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Men use care in purchasing a horse, and are neglectful in choosing friends. — John Muir Copy Share Image
I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world… — John Muir Copy Share Image
The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class… — John Muir Copy Share Image
The making of the far-famed New York Central Park was opposed by even good men, with misguided pluck, perseverance, and ingenuity, but… — John Muir Copy Share Image
During my first years in the Sierra, I was ever calling on everybody within reach to admire them, but I found no… — John Muir Copy Share Image
It seems strange that bears, so fond of all sorts of flesh, running the risks of guns and fires and poison, should… — John Muir Copy Share Image
I will follow my instincts, be myself for good or ill, and see what will be the upshot. — John Muir Copy Share
During my first years in the Sierra, I was ever calling on everybody within reach to admire them, but I found no one half… — John Muir Copy Share
...full of God's thoughts, a place of peace and safety amid the most exalted grandeur and enthusiastic action, a new song, a place of… — John Muir Copy Share
“Here are the roots of all the life of the valleys, and here more simply than elsewhere is the eternal flux of nature manifested.” — John Muir Copy Share
Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue. — John Muir Copy Share
Long, blue, spiky-edged shadows crept out across the snow-fields, while a rosy glow, at first scarce discernible, gradually deepened and suffused every mountain-top, flushing… — John Muir Copy Share
“This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor… — John Muir Copy Share
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. — John Muir Copy Share
In studying the fate of our forest king, we have thus far considered the action of purely natural causes only; but, unfortunately, man is… — John Muir Copy Share
The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted.… — John Muir Copy Share
Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living in the… — John Muir Copy Share
As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and… — John Muir Copy Share
![“Happy will be the men who, having the power and the love and the benevolent forecast to [create a park], will do it. They will not be forgotten. The trees and their lovers will sing their praises, and generations yet unborn will rise up and call them blessed.” quote by John Muir](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/fbd/john-muir-678_benevolent_happy-will-be-the-men-who-having-the-pow_2025840.png)
