Long Quotes by John Muir

The blessings of one mountain day, whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.

— John Muir

As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.

— John Muir

A man, in his books, may be said to walk the earth a long time after he is gone.

— John Muir

None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild.

— John Muir

God never made an ugly landscape. All that sun shines on is beautiful, so long as it is wild.

— John Muir

One learns that the world, though made, is yet being made; that this is still the morning of creation; that mountains long…

— 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

Memories may escape the action of the will, may sleep a long time, but when stirred by the right influence, though that…

— 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

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

Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where. Life…

— John Muir

Long, blue, spiky-edged shadows crept out across the snow-fields, while a rosy glow, at first scarce discernible, gradually deepened and suffused every…

— John Muir

It took more than three thousand years to make some of the trees in these western woods ... Through all the wonderful,…

— John Muir

Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest! Days in whose light everything seems equally divine,…

— John Muir

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! To behold this alone is worth the pains of any excursion a thousand…

— John Muir

I have seen oaks of many species in many kinds of exposure and soil, but those of Kentucky excel in grandeur all…

— John Muir

As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood,…

— John Muir

Bears are made of the same dust as we, and they breathe the same winds and drink of the same waters. A…

— John Muir