John Muir

I will follow my instincts, and be myself for good or ill.

— John Muir

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

— John Muir

Divine love is the sublime boss of the universe.

— John Muir

“Going to the woods is going home.”

— John Muir

When a man plants a tree, he plants himself.

— John Muir

Any fool can destroy trees, they cannot run away.

— John Muir

No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite.

— John Muir

While cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

— John Muir

He had gone to the higher Sierras... [about Ralph Waldo Emerson's death]

— John Muir

I will follow my instincts, be myself for good or ill, and see what will be the upshot.

— John Muir

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

— John Muir

It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.

— John Muir

I might have become a millionaire, but I chose to become a tramp.

— John Muir

As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.

— 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

Books are but stepping stones to show you where other minds have been.

— John Muir

Winds are advertisements of all they touch, however much or little we may be able to read them; telling their wanderings even…

— John Muir

Storms of every sort, torrents, earthquakes, cataclysms, 'convulsions of nature,' etc., however mysterious and lawless at first sight they may seem, are…

— John Muir

I made these Sierra trips, carrying only a sackful of bread with a little tea and sugar, and was thus independent and…

— John Muir

I wish I knew where I was going. Doomed to be carried of the spirit into the wilderness, I suppose. I wish…

— John Muir

The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts... Why should man…

— John Muir

I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can…

— John Muir

Who reports the works and ways of the clouds, those wondrous creations coming into being every day like freshly upheaved mountains?

— John Muir

Every purely natural object is a conductor of divinity, and we have but to expose ourselves in a clean condition to any…

— John Muir

From the dust of the earth, from the common elementary fund, the Creator has made Homo sapiens. From the same material he…

— John Muir

It took more than three thousand years to make some of the trees in these western woods ... Through all the wonderful,…

— John Muir

Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally. But in some of nature's forests,…

— John Muir

I have enjoyed the trees and scenery of Kentucky exceedingly. How shall I ever tell of the miles and miles of beauty…

— John Muir

Uncle Sam is not often called a fool in business matters, yet he has sold millions of acres of timber land at…

— John Muir

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

Thus godlike sympathy grows and thrives and spreads far beyond the teachings of churches and schools, where too often the mean, blinding,…

— John Muir

No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life. Some lean back…

— John Muir

Every good thing great and small needs defense

— John Muir

Keep in view the common good of the people for all time.

— John Muir

I always enjoyed the hearty society of a snowstorm.

— John Muir

God cannot save them from fools.

— John Muir

Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.

— John Muir

What wonders lie in every mountain day!

— John Muir

The grand show is eternal It is always sunrise somewhere

— John Muir

Our lives are rounded with a sleep.

— John Muir