All John Muir Quotes
- Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm. Enthusiasm
- When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing… All
- I was awakened by a tremendous earthquake, and though I hadn ever before enjoyed a storm of this sort, the strange thrilling motion could not… Awakened
- I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong. Firm
- Over the summit, I saw the so-called Mono desert lying dreamily silent in the thick, purple light -- a desert of heavy sun-glare beheld from… Beheld
- 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 the… Across
- One learns that the world, though made, is yet being made; that this is still the morning of creation; that mountains long conceived are now… Basins
- At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to… Blessed
- What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices… Earth
- Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it. Bee
- These temple destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism, seem to have a perfect contempt for Nature, and, instead of lifting their eyes to the God of… Almighty
- Nothing truly wild is unclean. Funny
- Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky. Blossom
- All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world's wildernesses… All
- I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I… Adventure
- No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering matter into stars,… All
- Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Any
- Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will kill care, save you from… Action
- The sun shines not on us but in us. The rivers flow not past, but through us. Thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of… Bird
- Doubly happy, however, is the man whom lofty mountain tops are within reach, for the lights that shine there illumine all that lies below All
- The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is… All
- Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the… Beauty
- Most people are on the world, not in it - having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them - undiffused, separate, and rigidly… Alone