When I first caught sight of (Mount Shasta) over the braided folds of the Sacramento Valley I was fifty miles away and… — John Muir Copy Share Image
I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Nothing can be done well at a speed of forty miles a day. The multitude of mixed, novel impressions rapidly piled on… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two… — John Muir Copy Share Image
To lovers of the wild, these mountains are not a hundred miles away. Their spiritual power and the goodness of the sky… — John Muir Copy Share Image
I have enjoyed the trees & scenery of KY exceedingly. How shall I ever tell of the miles & miles of beauty… — John Muir Copy Share Image
I was a few miles south of Louisville when I planned my journey. I spread out my map under a tree and… — John Muir Copy Share Image
I have enjoyed the trees and scenery of Kentucky exceedingly. How shall I ever tell of the miles and miles of beauty… — 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