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
In this silent, serene wilderness the weary can gain a heart-bath in perfect peace. — John Muir Copy Share Image
To the lover of pure wildness Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world. — John Muir Copy Share Image
Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. — 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
Strange the faithless fuss made about taking a walk in the safest and pleasantest of all places, a wilderness. — 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
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
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
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
I wish I knew where I was going. Doomed to be carried of the spirit into the wilderness, I suppose. I wish… — John Muir Copy Share Image
In God's wildness lies the hope of the world-the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. The galling harness of civilization drops off, and… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on seas and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth… — 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
Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a… — John Muir Copy Share Image
If I should be fated to walk no more with Nature, be compelled to leave all I most devoutly love in the… — 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
So abundant and novel are the objects of interest in a pure wilderness that unless you are pursuing special studies it matters… — 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
I should study Nature's laws in all their crossings and unions; I should follow magnetic streams to their source and follow the… — 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
Wilderness is not only a haven for native plants and animals but it is also a refuge from society. Its a place… — 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
To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in 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
All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of… — John Muir Copy Share Image
You know that I have not lagged behind in the work of exploring our grand wilderness, and in calling everybody to come… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Wilderness is a necessity ... They will see what I meant in time. There must be places for human beings to satisfy… — 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
