Seems Quotes by John Muir

Large flocks of butterflies, all kinds of happy insects, seem to be in a perfect fever of joy and sportive gladness.

— John Muir

I've had a great time in South America and South Africa. Indeed it now seems that on this pair of wild hot…

— John Muir

No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and…

— John Muir

To the sane and free it will hardly seem necessary to cross the continent in search of wild beauty, however easy the…

— John Muir

All wilderness seems to be full of tricks and plans to drive and draw us up into God's light.

— John Muir

Do behold the king in his glory, King Sequoia. Behold! Behold! seems all I can say… Well may I fast, not from…

— John Muir

When we try to pick out anything by itself we find it hitched to everything else in the universe ... The whole…

— 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

No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life. Some lean back…

— John Muir

The body seems to feel beauty when exposed to it as it feels the campfire or sunshine, entering not by the eyes…

— 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

So abundant and novel are the objects of interest in a pure wilderness that unless you are pursuing special studies it matters…

— John Muir

No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life...Awful in stern, immovable…

— John Muir

All the wild world is beautiful, and it matters but little where we go, to highlands or lowlands, woods or plains, on…

— 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

One is constantly reminded of the infinite lavishness and fertility of Nature-inexhaustible abundance amid what seems enormous waste. And yet when we…

— John Muir

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like…

— John Muir

The great wilds of our country, once held to be boundless and inexhaustible, are being rapidly invaded and overrun in every direction,…

— 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

We are in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of…

— John Muir