I am well again, I came to life in the cool winds and crystal waters of the mountains. — John Muir Copy Share Image
Wilderness is a necessity... there must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls... — John Muir Copy Share Image
The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark. — 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
Nature had gathered her choicest treasures , to draw her lovers into close and confiding communion with her — John Muir Copy Share Image
“Here are the roots of all the life of the valleys, and here more simply than elsewhere is the eternal flux of… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Nature as a poet, an enthusiastic workingman, becomes more and more visible the farther and higher we go; for the mountains are… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Nature is always lovely, invincible, glad, whatever is done and suffered by her creatures. All scars she heals, whether in rocks or… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is… — John Muir Copy Share Image
It is a vast wilderness of rocks in a sea of light, colored and glowing like oak and maple in autumn, when… — John Muir Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
How lavish is Nature building, pulling down, creating, destroying, chasing every material particle from form to form, ever changing, ever beautiful. — John Muir Copy Share Image
If the Creator were to bestow a new set of senses upon us, or slightly remodel the present ones, leaving all the… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Here grow the… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever… — John Muir Copy Share Image
I like to walk, touch living Mother Earth—bare feet best, and thrill every step. Used to envy happy reptiles that had advantage… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Perhaps the profession of doing good may be full, but every body should be kind at least to himself. Take a course… — John Muir Copy Share Image
The battle we have fought, and are still fighting for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and… — John Muir Copy Share Image
There are no accidents in Nature. Every motion of the constantly shifting bodies in the world is timed to the occasion for… — John Muir Copy Share Image
The great wilds of our country, once held to be boundless and inexhaustible, are being rapidly invaded and overrun in every direction,… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Strange the faithless fuss made about taking a walk in the safest and pleasantest of all places, a wilderness. — John Muir Copy Share Image
Who publishes the sheet-music of the winds or the music of water written in river-lines? — John Muir Copy Share Image
All wilderness seems to be full of tricks and plans to drive and draw us up into God's light. — John Muir Copy Share Image
To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world. — John Muir Copy Share Image
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. — John Muir Copy Share Image
The most distinctive, and perhaps the most impressive, characteristic of American scenery is its wilderness. — John Muir Copy Share Image
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. — 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
“When we tug at a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world.” — John Muir Copy Share Image
When we try to pick out anything by itself we find it hitched to everything else in the universe ... The whole… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Many of Nature's finest lessons are to be found in her storms, and if careful to keep in right relations with them,… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Plants, animals, and stars are all kept in place, bridled along appointed ways, with one another, and through the midst of one… — John Muir Copy Share Image
To sit in solitude, to think in solitude with only the music of the stream and the cedar to break the flow… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them... may we be filled with the… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly,… — 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
![“I like to walk, touch living Mother Earth—bare feet best, and thrill every step. Used to envy happy reptiles that had advantage of so much body in contact with earth, bosom to bosom. [We] live with our heels as well as head and most of our pleasure comes in that way.” quote by John Muir](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/0ab/john-muir-678_advantage_i-like-to-walk-touch-living-mother-earth_3036078.jpg)
