Gardening Quotes by John Muir

When a man plants a tree, he plants himself.

— John Muir

While cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

— John Muir

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

— John Muir

The finest of the glacier meadow gardens lie ...imbedded in the upper pine forests like lakes of light.

— 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

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

— John Muir

Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grasses and gentians of glacial…

— John Muir

When I discovered a new plant, I sat down beside it for a minute or a day, to make its acquaintance and…

— John Muir

No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering…

— John Muir

No words will ever describe the exquisite beauty and charm of this mountain park – Nature’s landscape garden at once tenderly beautiful…

— John Muir

So extraordinary is Nature with her choicest treasures, spending plant beauty as she spends sunshine, pouring it forth into land and sea,…

— John Muir

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give…

— John Muir

The groves and thickets of smaller trees are full of blooming evergreen vines. These vines are not arranged in separate groups, or…

— John Muir

“The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number…

— John Muir