All John Muir Quotes
- A man, in his books, may be said to walk the earth a long time after he is gone. Book
- There is no estimating the wit and wisdom concealed and latent in our lower fellow mortals until made manifest by profound experiences; for it is… Concealed
- Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where. Life seems neither long… Absorbed
- There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself. All
- Our lives are rounded with a sleep. Funny
- There are no accidents in Nature, Accidents
- The battle we have fought, and are still fighting for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong, and we… Any
- Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest! Days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand… Blessing
- How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! To behold this alone is worth the pains of any excursion a thousand times over. The… Alone
- I must return to the mountains-to Yosemite. I am told that the winter storms there will not be easily borne, but I am bewitched, enchanted,… Bewitched
- Wander a whole summer if you can. Thousands of God's blessings will search you and soak you as if you were a sponge, and the… Big
- Lizards of every temper, style, and color dwell here, seemingly as happy and companionable as the birds and squirrels. Bird
- The finest of the glacier meadow gardens lie ...imbedded in the upper pine forests like lakes of light. Finest
- C. albus...I think the very loveliest of all the lily family - a spotless soul, plant saint, that every one must love and so be… Albus
- He had gone to the higher Sierras... [about Ralph Waldo Emerson's death] Death
- In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others All
- But no temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life...as if into this one mountain… Choicest
- No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life...Awful in stern, immovable majesty, how softly… Adorned
- To sit in solitude, to think in solitude with only the music of the stream and the cedar to break the flow of silence, there… Break
- The water in music the oar forsakes. The air in music the wing forsakes. All things in move in music and write it. The mouse,… Air
- Plants, animals, and stars are all kept in place, bridled along appointed ways, with one another, and through the midst of one another -- killing… All
- Look up and down and round about you.! Down
- Wander a whole summer if you can. Time will not be taken from the sum of life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it… Definitely
- No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Compare
- I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found. Air