All John Muir Quotes
- Hiking. I don't like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains...the se mountains are our Holy Land, and we… Hike
- Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen All
- I’d rather be in the mountains thinking of God, than in church thinking about the mountains. Church
- Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Deep
- In the woods is perpetual youth. Inspirational
- Hiking - I don't like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains - not hike! Do you know the… Age
- I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence... to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it… Animal
- Everybody needs beauty as well as bread. Beauty
- All wilderness seems to be full of tricks and plans to drive and draw us up into God's light. All
- Beside the grand history of the glaciers and their own, the mountain streams sing the history of every avalanche or earthquake and of snow, all… All
- All the wild world is beautiful, and it matters but little where we go, to highlands or lowlands, woods or plains, on the sea or… All
- Of all the fire mountains which like beacons, once blazed along the Pacific Coast, Mount Rainier is the noblest. All
- The blessings of one mountain day, whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever. Blessing
- Wilderness is a necessity... there must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls... Beings
- They tell us that plants are not like man immortal, but are perishable-soul -less. I think that is something that we know exactly nothing about. Exactly
- To myself, mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery; in them, and in the forms of inferior landscape that lead to… Affection
- Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts . . . Altogether
- Every good thing great and small needs defense Defense
- Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body… Admiration
- I don't agree with you in saying that in all human minds there is poetry. Man as he came from the hand of his Maker… Agree
- When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. One fancies a heart like our… Animal
- Large flocks of butterflies, all kinds of happy insects, seem to be in a perfect fever of joy and sportive gladness. All
- The battle for conservation will go on endlessly. It is part of the universal battle between right and wrong. Battle
- As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but Nature's sources never fail. Like a generous host, she offers her brimming… Age
- I might have become a millionaire, but I chose to become a tramp. Chose