John Muir

Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.

— John Muir

Look! Nature is overflowing with the grandeur of God!

— John Muir

One can make a day of any size

— John Muir

Come to the woods, for here is rest.

— John Muir

We all flow from one fountain.

— John Muir

Going into the woods, is going home

— John Muir

Wherever we go in the mountains, we find more than we seek.

— John Muir

Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.

— John Muir

My meals were easily made, for they were all alike and simple, only a cupful of tea and bread.

— John Muir

Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest!

— John Muir

No right way is easy in this rough world. We must risk our lives to save them.

— John Muir

See how God writes history. No technical knowledge is required; only a calm day and a calm mind.

— John Muir

I...am always glad to touch the living rock again and dip my hand in the high mountain air.

— John Muir

...every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.

— John Muir

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

— John Muir

But to gain a perfect view, one must go yet further, over a curving brow to a slight shelf on the extreme…

— 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

Better to toil blindly, beating every stone in turn for grains of gold, whether they contain any or not, than lie down…

— John Muir

“Even the sick should try these so-called dangerous passes, because for every unfortunate they kill, they cure a thousand.”

— John Muir

I always befriended animals and have said many a good word for them. Even to the least-loved mosquitoes I gave many a…

— 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

A lifetime is so little a time that we die before we get ready to live. I should like to study at…

— 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

Beside the grand history of the glaciers and their own, the mountain streams sing the history of every avalanche or earthquake and…

— 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

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

— John Muir

All the world lies warm in one heart, yet the Sierra seems to get more light than other mountains. The weather is…

— 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

Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where. Life…

— John Muir

“I have observed scenery-hunters of all sorts getting first views of yosemites, glaciers. While Mountain ranges, etc. Mixed with the enthusiasm which…

— 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

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

Bears are made of the same dust as we, and they breathe the same winds and drink of the same waters. A…

— John Muir

Long, blue, spiky-edged shadows crept out across the snow-fields, while a rosy glow, at first scarce discernible, gradually deepened and suffused every…

— 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

Hiking - I don't like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains - not hike! Do…

— John Muir

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