John Muir

Keep in view the common good of the people for all time.

— John Muir

I always enjoyed the hearty society of a snowstorm.

— John Muir

God cannot save them from fools.

— John Muir

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

— John Muir

Divine love is the sublime boss of the universe.

— John Muir

“Going to the woods is going home.”

— John Muir

When a man plants a tree, he plants himself.

— John Muir

Any fool can destroy trees, they cannot run away.

— John Muir

“The world, we are told, was made especially for man — a presumption not supported by all the facts.”

— John Muir

Large flocks of butterflies, all kinds of happy insects, seem to be in a perfect fever of joy and sportive gladness.

— John Muir

I bade adieu to mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God.

— John Muir

Doubly happy, however, is the man to whom lofty mountain tops are within reach.

— John Muir

Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods.

— John Muir

In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.

— John Muir

Wilderness is a necessity... there must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls...

— John Muir

Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.

— John Muir

Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions…

— John Muir

“John Muir, Earth — planet, Universe [ Muir's home address, as inscribed on the inside front cover of his first field journal ]”

— John Muir

Ink cannot tell the glow that lights me at this moment in turning to the mountains. I feel strong [enough] to leap…

— John Muir

To sit in solitude, to think in solitude with only the music of the stream and the cedar to break the flow…

— John Muir

“I cut off some of their flat, spicy plumes for a bed, gathered a store of wood, and made a cordial fire,…

— John Muir

Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two…

— John Muir

Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them... may we be filled with the…

— John Muir

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly,…

— John Muir

The sun shines not on us but in us. The rivers flow not past, but through us. Thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber…

— John Muir

“Our flesh-and-bone tabernacle seems transparent as glass to the beauty about us, as if truly an inseparable part of it, thrilling with…

— John Muir

C. albus...I think the very loveliest of all the lily family - a spotless soul, plant saint, that every one must love…

— John Muir

Do behold the king in his glory, King Sequoia. Behold! Behold! seems all I can say… Well may I fast, not from…

— John Muir

Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Here grow the…

— John Muir

“This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever…

— John Muir

When we try to pick out anything by itself we find it hitched to everything else in the universe ... The whole…

— John Muir

The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart of the…

— John Muir

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give…

— John Muir

Hiking - I don't like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains - not hike! Do…

— John Muir

Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed,-chased and hunted down as…

— John Muir

Tell me what you will of the benefactions of city civilization, of the sweet security of streets-all as part of the natural…

— John Muir

Bears are made of the same dust as we, and they breathe the same winds and drink of the same waters. A…

— John Muir

Long, blue, spiky-edged shadows crept out across the snow-fields, while a rosy glow, at first scarce discernible, gradually deepened and suffused every…

— John Muir

“I have observed scenery-hunters of all sorts getting first views of yosemites, glaciers. While Mountain ranges, etc. Mixed with the enthusiasm which…

— John Muir

Wilderness is not only a haven for native plants and animals but it is also a refuge from society. Its a place…

— John Muir