All John Muir Quotes
- How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! Gives
- The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. Adventure
- A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though… Ago
- The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual. All
- To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world. Alaska
- Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm… Air
- I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as… Acceptance
- There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords. Braggart
- Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a… All
- One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of… Been
- The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark. Adventure
- Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own… Autumn
- When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. Attached
- I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. Adventure
- So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in… Affair
- How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation! All
- One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else. Go
- It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest. Always Interesting
- Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant. Adventure
- The sun shines not on us but in us. Emotion
- Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress... Blind
- Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity... Beginning
- Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal. Earth
- There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties Adventure
- Never while anything is left of me shall this... camp be forgotten. It has fairly grown into me, not merely as memory pictures, but as… Alike