Adventure Quotes by John Muir

It may not be easy, life isn't easy, but dreams keep you alive.

— John Muir

Going to the mountains is going home.

— John Muir

None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild.

— John Muir

Most people are on the world, not in it.

— John Muir

I never saw a discontented tree.

— John Muir

The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.

— 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

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

— John Muir

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

— John Muir

Who wouldn't be a mountaineer! Up here all the world's prizes seem nothing

— John Muir

One day's exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.

— John Muir

What is worthwhile in life? I think it is worth living and dreaming. If you don't you may be dead anyhow -…

— John Muir

Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will kill care,…

— John Muir

Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker,…

— 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

I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world…

— John Muir

The sun shines not on us but in us. The rivers flow not past, but through us. Thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber…

— 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

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

— 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

How many hearts with warm, red blood in them are beating under cover of the woods, and how many teeth and eyes…

— John Muir

I was awakened by a tremendous earthquake, and though I hadn ever before enjoyed a storm of this sort, the strange thrilling…

— 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