Animal Quotes by John Muir

Man and other civilized animals are the only creatures that ever become dirty.

— John Muir

Man has injured every animal he has touched.

— John Muir

Man is always and everywhere a blight on the landscape.

— John Muir

I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence... to show that any one animal was ever made for another as…

— John Muir

Lizards of every temper, style, and color dwell here, seemingly as happy and companionable as the birds and squirrels.

— John Muir

“I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for…

— 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

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

Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as…

— 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

Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living…

— 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

Plants, animals, and stars are all kept in place, bridled along appointed ways, with one another, and through the midst of one…

— 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

...full of God's thoughts, a place of peace and safety amid the most exalted grandeur and enthusiastic action, a new song, a…

— John Muir

No dogma taught by the present civilization seems to form so insuperable an obstacle in a way of a right understanding of…

— John Muir

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

— 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