The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he… — John Muir Copy Share Image
The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Storms of every sort, torrents, earthquakes, cataclysms, 'convulsions of nature,' etc., however mysterious and lawless at first sight they may seem, are… — John Muir Copy Share Image
No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering… — John Muir Copy Share Image
I bade adieu to mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God. — John Muir Copy Share Image
We all flow from one fountain- Soul. All are expressions of one love. God does not appear, and flow out, only from… — John Muir Copy Share Image
I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Listen to them! How wholly infused with God is this one big word of love that we call the world! — John Muir Copy Share Image
Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest! Days in whose light everything seems equally divine,… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. — John Muir Copy Share Image
The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us… — 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
