No right way is easy in this rough world. We must risk our lives to save them. — John Muir Copy Share Image
“The world's big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.” — John Muir Copy Share Image
The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark. — John Muir Copy Share Image
Who wouldn't be a mountaineer! Up here all the world's prizes seem nothing — John Muir Copy Share Image
To the lover of pure wildness Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world. — John Muir Copy Share Image
All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Listen to them! How wholly infused with God is this one big word of love that we call the world! — 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
To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world. — John Muir Copy Share Image
If the Creator were to bestow a new set of senses upon us, or slightly remodel the present ones, leaving all the… — John Muir Copy Share Image
The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will kill care,… — John Muir Copy Share Image
The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts... Why should man… — John Muir Copy Share Image
In God's wildness lies the hope of the world-the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. The galling harness of civilization drops off, and… — John Muir Copy Share Image
The coniferous forests of the Yosemite Park, and of the Sierra in general, surpass all others of their kind in America, or… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Every other civilized nation in the world has been compelled to care for its forests, and so must we if waste and… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“Most people are on the world, not in it — have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them — undiffused,… — John Muir Copy Share Image
So abundant and novel are the objects of interest in a pure wilderness that unless you are pursuing special studies it matters… — John Muir Copy Share Image
There are no accidents in Nature. Every motion of the constantly shifting bodies in the world is timed to the occasion for… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Although I was four years at the University [of Wisconsin], I did not take the regular course of studies, but instead picked… — John Muir Copy Share Image
How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this glorious starry firmament for a roof! In such places… — John Muir Copy Share Image
No dogma taught by the present civilization seems to form so insuperable an obstacle in a way of a right understanding of… — John Muir Copy Share Image
All the wild world is beautiful, and it matters but little where we go, to highlands or lowlands, woods or plains, on… — John Muir Copy Share Image
The redwood is the glory of the Coast Range. It extends along the western slope, in a nearly continuous belt about ten… — John Muir Copy Share Image
I am very blessed. The Valley is full of people, but they do not annoy me. I revolve in pathless places and… — John Muir Copy Share Image
One learns that the world, though made, is yet being made; that this is still the morning of creation; that mountains long… — John Muir Copy Share Image
C. albus...I think the very loveliest of all the lily family - a spotless soul, plant saint, that every one must love… — John Muir Copy Share Image
The last days of this glacial winter are not yet past; we live in 'creation's dawn.' The morning stars still sing together,… — John Muir Copy Share Image
I used to envy the father of our race, dwelling as he did in contact with the new-made fields and plants of… — John Muir Copy Share Image
I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world… — John Muir Copy Share Image
As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood,… — John Muir Copy Share Image
No words will ever describe the exquisite beauty and charm of this mountain park – Nature’s landscape garden at once tenderly beautiful… — John Muir Copy Share Image
The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class… — John Muir Copy Share Image
When one tugs at a single thing in nature; he finds it attached to the rest of the world. Variant - When… — 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
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