Men Quotes by John Muir

Doubly happy, however, is the man to whom lofty mountain tops are within reach.

— John Muir

When a man plants a tree, he plants himself.

— John Muir

Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen

— John Muir

A little pure wildness is the one great present want, both of men and sheep.

— John Muir

We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.

— John Muir

Men use care in purchasing a horse, and are neglectful in choosing friends.

— John Muir

Man is always and everywhere a blight on the landscape.

— John Muir

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

— John Muir

Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions…

— John Muir

Quench love, and what is left of a man's life but the folding of a few jointed bones and square inches of…

— John Muir

The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he…

— John Muir

Only spread a fern-frond over a man's head and worldly cares are cast out, and freedom and beauty and peace come in.

— John Muir

The United States government has always been proud of the welcome it has extended to good men of every nation, seeking freedom…

— John Muir

So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within…

— John Muir

In every country the mountains are fountains, not only of rivers but of men. Therefore we all are born mountaineers, the offspring…

— John Muir

They tell us that plants are not like man immortal, but are perishable-soul -less. I think that is something that we know…

— John Muir

Thus godlike sympathy grows and thrives and spreads far beyond the teachings of churches and schools, where too often the mean, blinding,…

— John Muir

The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts... Why should man…

— John Muir

In nothing does man, with his grand notions of heaven and charity, show forth his innate, low-bred, wild animalism more clearly than…

— John Muir

I don't agree with you in saying that in all human minds there is poetry. Man as he came from the hand…

— John Muir

The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able…

— John Muir

During my first years in the Sierra, I was ever calling on everybody within reach to admire them, but I found no…

— John Muir

It seems strange that bears, so fond of all sorts of flesh, running the risks of guns and fires and poison, should…

— John Muir

The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class…

— 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

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

We all travel the milky way together, trees and men; but it never occurred to me until this storm-day, while swinging in…

— John Muir

No dogma taught by the present civilization seems to form so insuperable an obstacle in a way of a right understanding of…

— John Muir

How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this glorious starry firmament for a roof! In such places…

— 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

Man has injured every animal he has touched.

— John Muir

The mountains are fountains not only of rivers and fertile soil, but of men.

— John Muir

Man and other civilized animals are the only creatures that ever become dirty.

— John Muir

The making of the far-famed New York Central Park was opposed by even good men, with misguided pluck, perseverance, and ingenuity, but…

— John Muir

I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world…

— John Muir

Happy will be the men who, having the power and the love and the benevolent forecast to [create a park], will do…

— 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

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

— John Muir