--- title: "21 Way Quotes By John Muir" description: "21 Way quotes by John Muir. Plus more from John Muir and more Way sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/486/john-muir-678_men_we-all-travel-the-milky-way-together-tre_944174.png" --- > [We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-muir/we-all-travel-the-milky-way-together-trees-and-men/) [John Muir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-muir/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/486/john-muir-678_men_we-all-travel-the-milky-way-together-tre_944174.png) > [Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-muir/between-every-two-pine-trees-there-is-a-door-leading-to-a-new-way-of/) [John Muir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-muir/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ec3/john-muir-678_arbor-day_between-every-two-pine-trees-there-is-a_2873391.png) > [The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-muir/the-clearest-way-into-the-universe-is-through-a-forest-wilderness/) [John Muir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-muir/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/01a/john-muir-678_earth_the-clearest-way-into-the-universe-is-th_2523624.png) > [We live with our heels as well as head and most of our pleasure comes in that way.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-muir/we-live-with-our-heels-as-well-as-head-and-most-of-our-pleasure-comes/) [John Muir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-muir/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/302/john-muir-678_bare-feet_we-live-with-our-heels-as-well-as-head-a_1889549.png) > [No right way is easy in this rough world. We must risk our lives to save them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-muir/no-right-way-is-easy-in-this-rough-world-we-must-risk-our-lives-to/) [John Muir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-muir/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f08/john-muir-678_easy_no-right-way-is-easy-in-this-rough-world_831269.png) > [To the sane and free it will hardly seem necessary to cross the continent in search of wild beauty, however easy the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-muir/to-the-sane-and-free-it-will-hardly-seem-necessary-to-cross-the/) [John Muir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-muir/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/14c/john-muir-678_abundance_to-the-sane-and-free-it-will-hardly-seem_2810919.jpg) > [Society doesn't need that everybody is behaving in the full normal way... like people in a Buddhist monastery... But eccentricity may also…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-muir/society-doesn-t-need-that-everybody-is-behaving-in-the-full-normal/) [John Muir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-muir/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b7f/john-muir-678_buddhism_society-doesn-t-need-that-everybody-is-b_1969679.png) > [It is easier to feel than to realize, or in any way explain, Yosemite grandeur. The magnitudes of the rocks and trees…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-muir/it-is-easier-to-feel-than-to-realize-or-in-any-way-explain-yosemite/) [John Muir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-muir/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b8e/john-muir-678_explain_it-is-easier-to-feel-than-to-realize-or_2128371.jpg) > [Who reports the works and ways of the clouds, those wondrous creations coming into being every day like freshly upheaved mountains?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-muir/who-reports-the-works-and-ways-of-the-clouds-those-wondrous-creations/) [John Muir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-muir/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b52/john-muir-678_clouds_who-reports-the-works-and-ways-of-the-cl_1125453.png) > [Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-muir/any-glimpse-into-the-life-of-an-animal-quickens-our-own-and-makes-it/) [John Muir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-muir/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/268/john-muir-678_animal_any-glimpse-into-the-life-of-an-animal-q_813878.png) > [Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts; and if people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-muir/few-are-altogether-deaf-to-the-preaching-of-pine-trees-their-sermons-2/) [John Muir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-muir/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/01f/john-muir-678_contemplation_few-are-altogether-deaf-to-the-preaching_448254.jpg) > [ \[Concerning the Water Ouzel, now called American Dipper:\] In a general way his music is that of the streams refined and spiritualized.… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-muir/concerning-the-water-ouzel-now-called-american-dipper-in-a-general/) [John Muir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-muir/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3c0/john-muir-678_ends_concerning-the-water-ouzel-now-called-am_1937573.png) > [I like to walk, touch living Mother Earth—bare feet best, and thrill every step. Used to envy happy reptiles that had advantage…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-muir/i-like-to-walk-touch-living-mother-earth-bare-feet-best-and-thrill/) [John Muir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-muir/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ab/john-muir-678_advantage_i-like-to-walk-touch-living-mother-earth_3036078.jpg) > [Many of Nature's finest lessons are to be found in her storms, and if careful to keep in right relations with them,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-muir/many-of-nature-s-finest-lessons-are-to-be-found-in-her-storms-and-if/) [John Muir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-muir/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d78/john-muir-678_beauty_many-of-nature-s-finest-lessons-are-to-b_1602247.jpg) > [Plants, animals, and stars are all kept in place, bridled along appointed ways, with one another, and through the midst of one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-muir/plants-animals-and-stars-are-all-kept-in-place-bridled-along/) [John Muir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-muir/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dbb/john-muir-678_animal_plants-animals-and-stars-are-all-kept-in_2932313.png) > [Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-muir/any-glimpse-into-the-life-of-an-animal-quickens-our-own-and-makes-it-2/) [John Muir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-muir/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3a4/john-muir-678_animal_any-glimpse-into-the-life-of-an-animal-q_1468836.jpg) > [Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest! Days in whose light everything seems equally divine,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-muir/oh-these-vast-calm-measureless-mountain-days-inciting-at-once-to-work-2/) [John Muir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-muir/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6a5/john-muir-678_blessing_oh-these-vast-calm-measureless-mountain_1939000.png) > [We all travel the milky way together, trees and men; but it never occurred to me until this storm-day, while swinging in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-muir/we-all-travel-the-milky-way-together-trees-and-men-but-it-never/) [John Muir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-muir/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d8d/john-muir-678_back-again_we-all-travel-the-milky-way-together-tre_2144629.png) > [No dogma taught by the present civilization seems to form so insuperable an obstacle in a way of a right understanding of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-muir/no-dogma-taught-by-the-present-civilization-seems-to-form-so/) [John Muir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-muir/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4c8/john-muir-678_animal_no-dogma-taught-by-the-present-civilizat_993099.png) > [Fresh beauty opens one's eyes wherever it is really seen, but the very abundance and completeness of the common beauty that besets…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-muir/fresh-beauty-opens-one-s-eyes-wherever-it-is-really-seen-but-the-very/) [John Muir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-muir/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d49/john-muir-678_abundance_fresh-beauty-opens-one-s-eyes-wherever-i_646195.png) > [Every purely natural object is a conductor of divinity, and we have but to expose ourselves in a clean condition to any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-muir/every-purely-natural-object-is-a-conductor-of-divinity-and-we-have/) [John Muir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-muir/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/277/john-muir-678_bread_every-purely-natural-object-is-a-conduct_2330706.png) ## Other authors on Way ## More by John Muir > [I will follow my instincts, be myself for good or ill, and see what will be the upshot.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-muir/i-will-follow-my-instincts-be-myself-for-good-or-ill-and-see-what/) [John Muir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-muir/during-my-first-years-in-the-sierra-i-was-ever-calling-on-everybody/) [John Muir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-muir/) > [While cares will drop off like autumn leaves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-muir/while-cares-will-drop-off-like-autumn-leaves/) [John Muir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-muir/full-of-god-s-thoughts-a-place-of-peace-and-safety-amid-the-most/) [John Muir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-muir/here-are-the-roots-of-all-the-life-of-the-valleys-and-here-more/) [John Muir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-muir/) > [Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-muir/spring-work-is-going-on-with-joyful-enthusiasm/) [John Muir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-muir/) > [Our lives are rounded with a sleep.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-muir/our-lives-are-rounded-with-a-sleep/) [John Muir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-muir/) > [Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-muir/another-glorious-day-the-air-as-delicious-to-the-lungs-as-nectar-to/) [John Muir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-muir/long-blue-spiky-edged-shadows-crept-out-across-the-snow-fields-while/) [John Muir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-muir/this-grand-show-is-eternal-it-is-always-sunrise-somewhere-the-dew-is/) [John Muir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-muir/) > [When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-muir/when-one-tugs-at-a-single-thing-in-nature-he-finds-it-attached-to-the/) [John Muir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-muir/in-studying-the-fate-of-our-forest-king-we-have-thus-far-considered/) [John Muir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-muir/the-forests-of-america-however-slighted-by-man-must-have-been-a-great/) [John Muir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-muir/man-seems-to-be-the-only-animal-whose-food-soils-him-making-necessary/) [John Muir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-muir/as-long-as-i-live-i-ll-hear-waterfalls-and-birds-and-winds-sing-i-ll/) [John Muir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-muir/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/way/john-muir/#itemlist", "name": "21 Way Quotes By John Muir", "numberOfItems": 21, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "John Muir" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-muir/we-all-travel-the-milky-way-together-trees-and-men/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/486/john-muir-678_men_we-all-travel-the-milky-way-together-tre_944174.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/486/john-muir-678_men_we-all-travel-the-milky-way-together-tre_944174.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/486/john-muir-678_men_we-all-travel-the-milky-way-together-tre_944174.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.” — John Muir", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "John Muir" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-muir/between-every-two-pine-trees-there-is-a-door-leading-to-a-new-way-of/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ec3/john-muir-678_arbor-day_between-every-two-pine-trees-there-is-a_2873391.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ec3/john-muir-678_arbor-day_between-every-two-pine-trees-there-is-a_2873391.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ec3/john-muir-678_arbor-day_between-every-two-pine-trees-there-is-a_2873391.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life.” — John Muir", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "John Muir" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-muir/the-clearest-way-into-the-universe-is-through-a-forest-wilderness/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/01a/john-muir-678_earth_the-clearest-way-into-the-universe-is-th_2523624.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/01a/john-muir-678_earth_the-clearest-way-into-the-universe-is-th_2523624.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/01a/john-muir-678_earth_the-clearest-way-into-the-universe-is-th_2523624.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.” — John Muir", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We live with our heels as well as head and most of our pleasure comes in that way.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "John Muir" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-muir/we-live-with-our-heels-as-well-as-head-and-most-of-our-pleasure-comes/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/302/john-muir-678_bare-feet_we-live-with-our-heels-as-well-as-head-a_1889549.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/302/john-muir-678_bare-feet_we-live-with-our-heels-as-well-as-head-a_1889549.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/302/john-muir-678_bare-feet_we-live-with-our-heels-as-well-as-head-a_1889549.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“We live with our heels as well as head and most of our pleasure comes in that way.” — John Muir", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "No right way is easy in this rough world. 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