All John Muir Quotes
- As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. Bird
- The moon is looking down into the canyon, and how marvelously the great rocks kindle to her light! Every dome, and brow, and swelling boss… Boss
- Listen to them! How wholly infused with God is this one big word of love that we call the world! Big
- Quench love, and what is left of a man's life but the folding of a few jointed bones and square inches of flesh? Who would… Bones
- Nothing can be done well at a speed of forty miles a day. The multitude of mixed, novel impressions rapidly piled on one another make… Another Make
- Nature has always something rare to show us... and the danger to life and limb is hardly greater than one would experience crouching deprecatingly beneath… Always Something
- So extraordinary is Nature with her choicest treasures, spending plant beauty as she spends sunshine, pouring it forth into land and sea, garden and desert.… Angel
- Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. All
- Who publishes the sheet-music of the winds or the music of water written in river-lines? Lines
- See how God writes history. No technical knowledge is required; only a calm day and a calm mind. Calm
- How infinitely superior to our physical senses are those of the mind! Funny
- Few in these hot, dim, strenuous times are quite sane or free; choked with care like clocks full of dust, laboriously doing so much good… Care
- What wonders lie in every mountain day! Day
- Word lessons, in particular the wouldst couldst shouldst have loved kind, were kept up, with much warlike thrashing, until I had committed the whole of… Committed
- Better to toil blindly, beating every stone in turn for grains of gold, whether they contain any or not, than lie down in apathetic decay. Any
- I...am always glad to touch the living rock again and dip my hand in the high mountain air. Air
- We are in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us....How glorious a… Been
- Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Climb
- Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your… Awhile
- Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. Beauty
- In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. Adventure
- God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools. Avalanches
- The mountains are calling and I must go. Calling
- When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. Adventure
- The power of imagination makes us infinite. Imagination