Ifs Quotes by John Muir

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

— John Muir

What is worthwhile in life? I think it is worth living and dreaming. If you don't you may be dead anyhow -…

— John Muir

I am often asked if I am not lonely on my solitary excursions. It seems so self-evident that one cannot be lonesome…

— John Muir

But no temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life...as if into…

— John Muir

Many of Nature's finest lessons are to be found in her storms, and if careful to keep in right relations with them,…

— John Muir

Wander here a whole summer, if you can ... Thousands of wild blessings will search you and soak you as if you…

— John Muir

Wander a whole summer if you can. Time will not be taken from the sum of life. Instead of shortening, it will…

— 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

I have precious little sympathy for the selfish propriety of civilized man, and if aware of races should occur between the wild…

— John Muir

The moon is looking down into the canyon, and how marvelously the great rocks kindle to her light! Every dome, and brow,…

— John Muir

Perhaps the profession of doing good may be full, but every body should be kind at least to himself. Take a course…

— 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

If I should be fated to walk no more with Nature, be compelled to leave all I most devoutly love in the…

— John Muir

If the Creator were to bestow a new set of senses upon us, or slightly remodel the present ones, leaving all the…

— John Muir

Tell me what you will of the benefactions of city civilization, of the sweet security of streets-all as part of the natural…

— John Muir

Wander a whole summer if you can. Thousands of God's blessings will search you and soak you as if you were a…

— John Muir

In studying the fate of our forest king, we have thus far considered the action of purely natural causes only; but, unfortunately,…

— John Muir

To lovers of the wild, these mountains are not a hundred miles away. Their spiritual power and the goodness of the sky…

— John Muir

Bread without butter or coffee without milk is an awful calamity, as if everything before being put in our mouth must first…

— 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