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John Muir Quotes

Total quotes: 125
“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 to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.”
— John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra
Tagged: Thunderstorms, Nature, Trees
“Nature in her green, tranquil woods heals and soothes all afflictions.”
— John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir,
Tagged: Nature, Green, tranquil, Woods, Healing
“I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.”
— John Muir, Wilderness Essays(Peregrine Smith Literary Naturalists) by John Muir (1989-03-01)
Tagged: Nature, natural beauty
“The finest of the glacier meadow gardens lie...imbedded in the upper pine forests like lakes of light.”
— John Muir, Our National Parks
Tagged: Glacier, Lakes of Light, Nature
“The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.”
— John Muir, A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf
Tagged: Morning Light, Nature, Oak, Elm, Walnut, Hickory, calm, calming
“Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.”
— John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra
Tagged: beauty, Nature, eternal
“There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.”
— John Muir, A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf
Tagged: Flower, Creation
“I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.”
— John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir,
Tagged: Nature, Nature Walk, Sundown
“One day's exposure to mountains is better than cartloads of books. See how willingly Nature poses herself upon photographers' plates. No earthly chemicals are so sensitive as those of the human soul.”
— John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir,
Tagged: Nature, Books
“I always befriended animals and have said many a good word for them. Even to the least-loved mosquitoes I gave many a meal, and told them to go in peace.”
— John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir,
Tagged: Animals, Mosquitoes, Nature
“Nature is always lovely, invincible, glad, whatever is done and suffered by her creatures. All scars she heals, whether in rocks or water or sky or hearts.”
— John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir,
Tagged: Nature, lovely, Invincible
“We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.”
— John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra
Tagged: Mountains, Nature, beauty
“What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!”
— John Muir, Stickeen: John Muir and the Brave Little Dog
Tagged: Nature, Thunderstorms
“Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.”
— John Muir, Mountains of California by John Muir(2016-05-16)
Tagged: Raindrops, rainbow, Sky, Nature
“I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found.”
— John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir,
Tagged: Fresh Air, Nature, Pure
“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”
— John Muir, Our National Parks(1901). By: John Muir: John Muir ( April 21, 1838 – December 24, 1914) also known as "John of the Mountains", was a ... of wilderness in the United States.
Tagged: Nature, humanity
“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
— John Muir, John of the Mountains
Tagged: Universe, Nature, Nature and Nurture, Life, Earth, World, immersion with nature
“As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I’ll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I’ll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can.”
— John Muir, Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir
Tagged: Life, Living, Journey, travel, World, Nature, Experience, Learning, Free, Freedom
“Every morning, arising from the death of sleep, the happy plants and all our fellow animal creatures great and small, and even the rocks, seemed to be shouting, ‘Awake, awake, rejoice, rejoice, come love us and join in our song. Come! Come!’”
— John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra
Tagged: Nature, natural beauty
“None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild.”
— John Muir, Our National Parks
Tagged: Nature, Landscapes, ugly, Wild
“Come to the woods, for here is rest.”
— John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir,
Tagged: Woods, Rest, Nature
“The mountains are calling and I must go.”
— John Muir, Get to Know the Story Behind Muir's "The Mountains Are Calling" Quote- The Basin and Range
Tagged: Adventure, Mountains, outside, travel
“Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.”
— John Muir, Travels in Alaska
Tagged: World Travel
“Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.”
— John Muir, John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings
Tagged: Hard Work, Dust, Ashes, Ignorance
“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.”
— John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra
Tagged: Interonnectedness, Nature, All is One, Universe
“Even the sick should try these so-called dangerous passes, because for every unfortunate they kill, they cure a thousand.”
— John Muir, Mountains of California by John Muir(2016-05-16)
Tagged: Mountain Passes, danger
“But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.”
— John Muir, Wilderness Essays
Tagged: Dark Nights, Storms, Waves
“Wherever there were glaciers, the world was in a constant state of creation.”
— John Muir, Wilderness Essays
Tagged: glaciers, Creation
“The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted.”
— John Muir, Our National Parks(Wilderness)
Tagged: Forests, God
“My fire was in all its glory about midnight, and, having made a bark shed to shelter me from the rain and partially dry my clothing, I had nothing to do but look and listen and join the trees in their hymns and prayers.”
— John Muir, Travels in Alaska
Tagged: Prayers, Fire, glory, midnight
“Earth hath no sorrows that earth cannot heal, or heaven cannot heal, for the earth as seen in the clean wilds of the mountains is about as divine as anything the heart of man can conceive!”
— John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir,
Tagged: Earth, Sorrow, Heaven, Mountains, Healing
“Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue; indeed the body seems one palate, and tingles equally throughout.”
— John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra
Tagged: Beautiful Day, Fresh Air
“It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.”
— John Muir, Our National Parks
Tagged: Earthquakes, Dead Earnest
“But think of the hearts of these whales, beating warm against the sea, day and night, through dark and light, on and on for centuries; how the red blood must rush and gurgle in and out, bucketfuls, barrelfuls at a beat!”
— John Muir, Travels in Alaska
Tagged: Whales, Heartbeat
“This is Nature's own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.”
— John Muir, Our National Parks
Tagged: Nature, Wilderness
“Why should man value himself as more than a small part of the one great unit of creation? And what creature of all that the Lord has taken the pains to make is not essential to the completeness of that unit—the cosmos?”
— John Muir, A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf
Tagged: Creation, Cosmos, Oneness
“Like most other things not apparently useful to man, it has few friends, and the blind question, ‘Why was it made?’ goes on and on with never a guess that first of all it might have been made for itself.”
— John Muir, JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters(Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures ... Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more
Tagged: Mysteries, Usefulness
“Winds are advertisements of all they touch, however much or little we may be able to read them; telling their wanderings even by their scents alone.”
— John Muir, Mountains of California by John Muir(2016-05-16)
Tagged: Wind, advertisements
“God never made an ugly landscape. All that the sun shines on is beautiful, so long as it is wild.”
— John Muir, The National Parks and Forest Reservations, 1895
“Who publishes the sheet-music of the winds, or the written music of water written in river-lines?”
— John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir,
Tagged: Sheet Music, Wind, Water
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