All John Muir Quotes
- The mountains are fountains not only of rivers and fertile soil, but of men. Fertile
- I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer. Forever
- No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life. Some lean back in majestic repose;… Absolutely
- Wherever we go in the mountains, we find more than we seek. Find
- The radiance in some places is so great as to be fairly dazzling... every crystal, every flower a window opening into heaven, a mirror reflecting… Creator
- Who reports the works and ways of the clouds, those wondrous creations coming into being every day like freshly upheaved mountains? Clouds
- Winds are advertisements of all they touch, however much or little we may be able to read them; telling their wanderings even by their scents… Able
- No dogma taught by the present civilization seems to form so insuperable an obstacle in a way of a right understanding of the relations which… Allowed
- If the Creator were to bestow a new set of senses upon us, or slightly remodel the present ones, leaving all the rest of nature… All
- No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther… Cathedrals
- Go quietly alone, no harm will befall you. Alone
- We all flow from one fountain. All
- By forces seemingly antagonistic and destructive Nature accomplishes her beneficent designs - now a flood of fire, now a flood of ice, now a flood… Accomplish
- Keep in view the common good of the people for all time. All
- We all flow from one fountain- Soul. All are expressions of one love. All
- The power of imagination is infinite. Imagination
- Going into the woods, is going home Going Home
- We live with our heels as well as head and most of our pleasure comes in that way. Head
- I should study Nature's laws in all their crossings and unions; I should follow magnetic streams to their source and follow the shores of our… All
- The groves and thickets of smaller trees are full of blooming evergreen vines. These vines are not arranged in separate groups, or in delicate wreaths,… Any
- Nature as a poet, an enthusiastic workingman, becomes more and more visible the farther and higher we go; for the mountains are fountains – beginning… Becomes
- No words will ever describe the exquisite beauty and charm of this mountain park – Nature’s landscape garden at once tenderly beautiful and sublime. No… All
- No Sierra landscape that I have seen holds anything truly dead or dull, or any trace of what in manufactories is called rubbish or waste;… Any
- Wilderness is a necessity ... They will see what I meant in time. There must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls. Food… All
- Galen Clark was the best mountaineer I ever met, and one of the kindest and most amiable of all my mountain friends. All