All John Muir Quotes
- When you tug at a single thing in the universe, you'll find its attached to everything else. Attached
- ...Good luck and Good work for the happy mountain raindrops, each one of them a high waterfall in itself, descending from the cliffs and hollows… Cliffs
- Uncle Sam is not often called a fool in business matters, yet he has sold millions of acres of timber land at two dollars and… Acre
- The redwood is one of the few conifers that sprout from the stump and roots, and it declares itself willing to begin immediately to repair… Begin
- Gigantic second and third growth trees are found in the redwoods, forming magnificent temple-like circles around charred ruins more than a thousand years old. Charred
- Do behold the king in his glory, King Sequoia. Behold! Behold! seems all I can say.... Well may I fast, not from bread but from… All
- I like to walk, touch living Mother Earth—bare feet best, and thrill every step. Used to envy happy reptiles that had advantage of so much… Advantage
- Man and other civilized animals are the only creatures that ever become dirty. Animal
- I am well again, I came to life in the cool winds and crystal waters of the mountains. Came
- In the eternal youth of Nature, you may renew your own. Eternal
- Wherever a Scotsman goes, here goes Burns. His grand whole, catholic soul squares with the good of all; therefore we find him in everything, everywhere. All
- Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed-chased and hunted down as long as fun… Any
- While cares will drop off like autumn leaves. Autumn
- None may wholly escape the good of Nature, however imperfectly exposed to her blessings. The minister will not preach a perfectly flat and sedimentary sermon… Affect
- Perhaps the profession of doing good may be full, but every body should be kind at least to himself. Take a course of good water… Afraid
- The great wilds of our country, once held to be boundless and inexhaustible, are being rapidly invaded and overrun in every direction, and everything destructible… Blackened
- Society doesn't need that everybody is behaving in the full normal way... like people in a Buddhist monastery... But eccentricity may also connect with the… Behaving
- Divine love is the sublime boss of the universe. Authority
- I have a low opinion of books: they are piles of stones set up to show coming travelers where other minds have been, or at… Attention
- I wish I knew where I was going. Doomed to be carried of the spirit into the wilderness, I suppose. I wish I could be… Carried
- Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on seas and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls. Continents
- It is a fine thing to see people in hot earnest about anything. Earnest
- To ask me whether I could endure to live without friends is absurd. It is easy enough to live out of material sight of friends,… Absurd
- Bread without butter or coffee without milk is an awful calamity, as if everything before being put in our mouth must first be held under… Awful
- Every atom in creation may be said to be acquainted with and married to every other, but with universal union there is a division sufficient… Acquainted