Nature Quotes by John Muir

Look! Nature is overflowing with the grandeur of God!

— John Muir

In the eternal youth of Nature, you may renew your own.

— John Muir

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.

— John Muir

The mountains are calling and I must go.

— John Muir

In the woods is perpetual youth.

— John Muir

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

— John Muir

While cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

— John Muir

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

— John Muir

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

— John Muir

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

— John Muir

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

— John Muir

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really…

— John Muir

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

— John Muir

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

— John Muir

Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every…

— John Muir

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

— John Muir

Nature is always lovely, invincible, glad, whatever is done and suffered by her creatures. All scars she heals, whether in rocks or…

— John Muir

“You bathe in these spirit-beams, turning round and round, as if warming at a camp-fire. Presently you lose consciousness of your own…

— John Muir

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is…

— John Muir

There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by…

— John Muir

It is a vast wilderness of rocks in a sea of light, colored and glowing like oak and maple in autumn, when…

— John Muir

“Here are the roots of all the life of the valleys, and here more simply than elsewhere is the eternal flux of…

— John Muir

Nature as a poet, an enthusiastic workingman, becomes more and more visible the farther and higher we go; for the mountains are…

— John Muir

Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly…

— John Muir

“A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like…

— John Muir

The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever…

— John Muir

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

If the Creator were to bestow a new set of senses upon us, or slightly remodel the present ones, leaving all the…

— John Muir

If I should be fated to walk no more with Nature, be compelled to leave all I most devoutly love in the…

— John Muir

The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able…

— John Muir

So abundant and novel are the objects of interest in a pure wilderness that unless you are pursuing special studies it matters…

— John Muir

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

Wilderness is not only a haven for native plants and animals but it is also a refuge from society. Its a place…

— John Muir

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give…

— John Muir

Fresh beauty opens one's eyes wherever it is really seen, but the very abundance and completeness of the common beauty that besets…

— John Muir

“The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number…

— John Muir

“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is…

— John Muir

“If for a moment you are inclined to regard these taluses as mere draggled, chaotic dumps, climb to the top of one…

— John Muir

There are no accidents in Nature,

— John Muir

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

— John Muir