Flower Quotes by John Muir

I wonder if leaves feel lonely when they see their neighbors falling?

— John Muir

Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.

— John Muir

Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.

— John Muir

While cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

— John Muir

When a man plants a tree, he plants himself.

— John Muir

One of the best ways to see tree flowers is to climb one of the tallest trees and to get into close,…

— John Muir

Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts . . .

— John Muir

The Big Tree is Nature's forest masterpiece, and so far as I know, the greatest of living things.

— John Muir

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about…

— John Muir

The radiance in some places is so great as to be fairly dazzling... every crystal, every flower a window opening into heaven,…

— John Muir

Gigantic second and third growth trees are found in the redwoods, forming magnificent temple-like circles around charred ruins more than a thousand…

— 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

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.

— John Muir

Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts; and if people…

— John Muir

No traveler, whether a tree lover or not, will ever forget his first walk in a sugar-pine forest. The majestic crowns approaching…

— John Muir

Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed - chased and hunted…

— John Muir

As soon as a redwood is cut down or burned, it sends up a crowd of eager, hopeful shoots, which, if allowed…

— John Muir

The redwood is one of the few conifers that sprout from the stump and roots, and it declares itself willing to begin…

— John Muir

C. albus...I think the very loveliest of all the lily family - a spotless soul, plant saint, that every one must love…

— 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 temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life...Awful in stern, immovable…

— 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

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

— John Muir

There are no accidents in Nature. Every motion of the constantly shifting bodies in the world is timed to the occasion for…

— John Muir

Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the…

— John Muir