A man, in his books, may be said to walk the earth a long time after he is gone. — 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
What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other… — John Muir Copy Share Image
From the dust of the earth, from the common elementary fund, the Creator has made Homo sapiens. From the same material he… — John Muir Copy Share Image
I like to walk, touch living Mother Earth—bare feet best, and thrill every step. Used to envy happy reptiles that had advantage… — John Muir Copy Share Image
The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever… — 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
I will follow my instincts, be myself for good or ill, and see what will be the upshot. — John Muir Copy Share Image
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 Image
...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 Image
“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 Image
Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue. — John Muir Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. — John Muir Copy Share Image
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 Image
![“I like to walk, touch living Mother Earth—bare feet best, and thrill every step. Used to envy happy reptiles that had advantage of so much body in contact with earth, bosom to bosom. [We] live with our heels as well as head and most of our pleasure comes in that way.” quote by John Muir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0ab/john-muir-678_advantage_i-like-to-walk-touch-living-mother-earth_3036078.jpg)
