« All Us Quotes · John Muir's Page
Us Quotes by John Muir
- How many hearts with warm, red blood in them are beating under cover of the woods, and how many teeth and eyes are shining? A…
- Imagination is usually regarded as a synonym for the unreal. Yet is true imagination healthful and real, no more likely to mislead than the coarse…
- We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us. Our…
- Rivers flow not past, but through us; tingling, vibrating, exciting every cell and fiber in our bodies, making them sing and glide.
- I never have held death in contempt, though in the course of my explorations I have oftentimes felt that to meet one's fate on a…
- Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest! Days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand…
- All wilderness seems to be full of tricks and plans to drive and draw us up into God's light.
- They tell us that plants are not like man immortal, but are perishable-soul -less. I think that is something that we know exactly nothing about.
- If the Creator were to bestow a new set of senses upon us, or slightly remodel the present ones, leaving all the rest of nature…
- 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…
- 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…
- The power of imagination makes us infinite.
- 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…
- The sun shines not on us but in us.
- God has to nearly kill us sometimes, to teach us lessons.
- 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…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle