All John Muir Quotes
- Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing… Allowing
- Nature is always lovely, invincible, glad, whatever is done and suffered by her creatures. All scars she heals, whether in rocks or water or sky… All
- To lovers of the wild, these mountains are not a hundred miles away. Their spiritual power and the goodness of the sky make them near,… Bathe
- The tide of visitors will float slowly about the bottom of the valley as harmless scum collecting in hotel and saloon eddies, leaving the rocks… Bottom
- Indians walk softly and hurt the landscape hardly more than the birds and squirrels, and their brush and bark huts last hardly longer than those… Bark
- Yosemite Park... None can escape its charms. Its natural beauty cleans and warms like a fire, and you will be willing to stay forever in… Beauty
- Wander here a whole summer, if you can ... Thousands of wild blessings will search you and soak you as if you were a sponge,… Big
- When I discovered a new plant, I sat down beside it for a minute or a day, to make its acquaintance and hear what it… Acquaintance
- Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way." ... "Surely… Animal
- Doubly happy, however, is the man to whom lofty mountain tops are within reach. Doubly
- Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grasses and gentians of glacial meadows, in craggy… Among
- Fresh beauty opens one's eyes wherever it is really seen, but the very abundance and completeness of the common beauty that besets our steps prevents… Absorbed
- I used to envy the father of our race, dwelling as he did in contact with the new-made fields and plants of Eden; but I… Beautiful
- Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity... Beautiful
- How lavish is Nature building, pulling down, creating, destroying, chasing every material particle from form to form, ever changing, ever beautiful. Beautiful
- One can make a day of any size Any
- We all flow from one fountain- Soul. All are expressions of one love. God does not appear, and flow out, only from narrow chinks and… All
- The substance of the winds is too thin for human eyes, their written language is too difficult for human minds, and their spoken language mostly… Difficult
- I have enjoyed the trees and scenery of Kentucky exceedingly. How shall I ever tell of the miles and miles of beauty that have been… Among
- I have seen oaks of many species in many kinds of exposure and soil, but those of Kentucky excel in grandeur all I had ever… All
- The Big Tree is Nature's forest masterpiece, and so far as I know, the greatest of living things. Big
- Memories may escape the action of the will, may sleep a long time, but when stirred by the right influence, though that influence be light… Action
- Man is always and everywhere a blight on the landscape. Animal
- I am often asked if I am not lonely on my solitary excursions. It seems so self-evident that one cannot be lonesome where everything is… Answer
- Yosemite Park is a place of rest, a refuge from the roar and dust and weary, nervous, wasting work of the lowlands, in which one… Advantage