--- title: "17 John Muir Quotes by 13 authors" description: "Browse 17 John Muir quotes by 13 authors. Discover the best John Muir sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e34/john-muir-678_earth_john-muir-earth-planet-universe-199822_199822.png" --- > [John Muir, Earth-planet, Universe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-muir/john-muir-earth-planet-universe/) [John Muir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-muir/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e34/john-muir-678_earth_john-muir-earth-planet-universe-199822_199822.png) > [“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” —John Muir”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-oppenlander/when-one-tugs-at-a-single-thing-in-nature-he-finds-it-attached-to-the-2/) Richard Oppenlander [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a13/richard-oppenlander-90798_nature_when-one-tugs-at-a-single-thing-in-natur_1377974.jpg) > [ “John Muir, Earth — planet, Universe \[ Muir's home address, as inscribed on the inside front cover of his first field journal \]” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-muir/john-muir-earth-planet-universe-muir-s-home-address-as-inscribed-on/) [John Muir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-muir/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ecf/john-muir-678_cosmopolitan_john-muir-earth-planet-universe-muir-s-h_1240184.png) > [I would say Gary Snyder, who is from my part of the world as a poet and environmental thinker, will be read…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hass/i-would-say-gary-snyder-who-is-from-my-part-of-the-world-as-a-poet/) [Robert Hass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hass/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f5b/robert-hass-3548_continue_i-would-say-gary-snyder-who-is-from-my-p_581963.jpg) > [“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. -John Muir, naturalist,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-muir/when-we-try-to-pick-out-anything-by-itself-we-find-it-hitched-to-3/) [John Muir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-muir/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dff/john-muir-678_connections_when-we-try-to-pick-out-anything-by-itse_2970279.png) > [I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/i-remember-when-an-editor-at-the-national-geographic-promised-to-run/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/089/anonymous-1_dozen_i-remember-when-an-editor-at-the-nationa_2918505.jpg) > [John Muir, the famous naturalist, wrote in his journal that you should never go to Alaska as a young man because you'll…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-bodett/john-muir-the-famous-naturalist-wrote-in-his-journal-that-you-should/) [Tom Bodett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-bodett/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/378/tom-bodett-20459_alaska_john-muir-the-famous-naturalist-wrote-in_3203299.png) > [“Keep close to Nature's heart, yourself; and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-hall-young/keep-close-to-nature-s-heart-yourself-and-break-clear-away-once-in-a/) Samuel Hall Young [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/483/samuel-hall-young-275885_nature_keep-close-to-nature-s-heart-yourself-an_3029917.jpg) > [“His treatment of mechanical problems wasn't divorced from the worldly situations in which they arise, and as a result \[John Muir's service…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-b-crawford/his-treatment-of-mechanical-problems-wasn-t-divorced-from-the-worldly/) [Matthew B. Crawford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-b-crawford/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8f3/matthew-b-crawford-26537_muir_his-treatment-of-mechanical-problems-was_2566071.jpg) > [“Now, wilderness can be seen as a useful fiction, a fiction constructed by John Muir and his heirs and deployed to keep…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rebecca-solnit/now-wilderness-can-be-seen-as-a-useful-fiction-a-fiction-constructed/) [Rebecca Solnit](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rebecca-solnit/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a83/rebecca-solnit-569_landscape_now-wilderness-can-be-seen-as-a-useful-f_467550.png) > [I began working with the John Muir Institute and then started helping found Friends of the Earth organizations here and there in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-r-brower/i-began-working-with-the-john-muir-institute-and-then-started-helping/) [David R. Brower](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-r-brower/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3d0/david-r-brower-9665_earth_i-began-working-with-the-john-muir-insti_819258.jpg) > [ In that year \[1865\] John Muir offered to buy from his brother ... a sanctuary for the wildflowers that had gladdened his… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aldo-leopold/in-that-year-1865-john-muir-offered-to-buy-from-his-brother-a/) [Aldo Leopold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aldo-leopold/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bf9/aldo-leopold-1278_birth_in-that-year-1865-john-muir-offered-to-b_1777207.png) > [ There are instances: \[Henry David\] Thoreau read \[John\] Wordsworth, \[John\] Muir read Thoreau, Teddy Roosevelt read Muir, and you got national parks.… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hass/there-are-instances-henry-david-thoreau-read-john-wordsworth-john/) [Robert Hass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hass/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee0/robert-hass-3548_artistic_there-are-instances-henry-david-thoreau_1836417.jpg) > [“A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-muir/a-few-minutes-ago-every-tree-was-excited-bowing-to-the-roaring-storm-2/) [John Muir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-muir/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f53/john-muir-678_beauty_a-few-minutes-ago-every-tree-was-excited_1600413.jpg) > [Inspired by John Muir's A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, John Davis walks, bikes, and kayaks on a 'voyage of recovery' from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-brune/inspired-by-john-muir-s-a-thousand-mile-walk-to-the-gulf-john-davis/) [Michael Brune](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-brune/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b7a/michael-brune-51347_bears_inspired-by-john-muir-s-a-thousand-mile_2636740.png) > [“Chastity and moral purity were qualities McCandless mulled over long and often. Indeed, one of the books found in the bus with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-krakauer/chastity-and-moral-purity-were-qualities-mccandless-mulled-over-long/) [Jon Krakauer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-krakauer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/575/jon-krakauer-1557_character_chastity-and-moral-purity-were-qualities_2309978.jpg) > [“I explored the literature of tree-climbing, not extensive, but so exciting. John Muir had swarmed up a hundred-foot Douglas Spruce during a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-macfarlane/i-explored-the-literature-of-tree-climbing-not-extensive-but-so/) [Robert Macfarlane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-macfarlane/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc3/robert-macfarlane-11240_books_i-explored-the-literature-of-tree-climbi_2498802.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/john-muir/#itemlist", "name": "John Muir Quotes", "numberOfItems": 17, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "John Muir, Earth-planet, Universe.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "John Muir" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-muir/john-muir-earth-planet-universe/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e34/john-muir-678_earth_john-muir-earth-planet-universe-199822_199822.png", 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It took a century for this to happen, for artistic values to percolate down to where honoring the relation of people's imagination to the land, or beauty, or to wild things, was issued in legislation.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Robert Hass" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hass/there-are-instances-henry-david-thoreau-read-john-wordsworth-john/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee0/robert-hass-3548_artistic_there-are-instances-henry-david-thoreau_1836417.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee0/robert-hass-3548_artistic_there-are-instances-henry-david-thoreau_1836417.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee0/robert-hass-3548_artistic_there-are-instances-henry-david-thoreau_1836417.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“There are instances: [Henry David] Thoreau read [John] Wordsworth, [John] Muir read Thoreau, Teddy Roosevelt…” — Robert Hass", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 14, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. 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Indeed, one of the books found in the bus with his remains was a collection of stories that included Tol¬stoy’s “The Kreutzer Sonata,” in which the nobleman-turned-ascetic denounces “the demands of the flesh.” Several such passages are starred and highlighted in the dog-eared text, the margins filled with cryptic notes printed in McCandless’s distinc¬tive hand. And in the chapter on “Higher Laws” in Thoreau’s Walden, a copy of which was also discovered in the bus, McCand¬less circled “Chastity is the flowering of man; and what are called Genius, Heroism, Holiness, and the like, are but various fruits which succeed it.” We Americans are titillated by sex, obsessed by it, horrified by it. When an apparently healthy person, especially a healthy young man, elects to forgo the enticements of the flesh, it shocks us, and we leer. Suspicions are aroused. 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