Stones Quotes by John Muir

I will follow my instincts, be myself for good or ill, and see what will be the upshot.

— John Muir

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

While cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

— John Muir

...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

“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

Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.

— John Muir

Our lives are rounded with a sleep.

— John Muir

Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.

— 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 mountain-top, flushing…

— John Muir

“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

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

— John Muir

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

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

— John Muir

Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living in the…

— 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, storm, and…

— John Muir