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John Muir Quotes

Total quotes: 79
“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— John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir,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
“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
“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— John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir,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
“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
“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
“There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.”
— John Muir, The Wilderness World of John Muir
Tagged: Nature, All is One, Interconnectedness
“It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.”
— John Muir, Our National Parks
Tagged: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mountains, Aging
“Over the summit, I saw the so-called Mono desert lying dreamily silent in the thick, purple light—a desert of heavy sun-glare beheld from a desert of ice-burnished granite.”
— John Muir, The Wild Muir: Twenty-Two of John Muir's Greatest Adventures
Tagged: Mono Desert, Sun Glare, Granite, natural beauty
“You bathe in these spirit-beams, turning round and round, as if warming at a camp-fire. Presently you lose consciousness of your own separate existence: you blend with the landscape, and become part and parcel of nature.”
— John Muir, Wilderness Essays
Tagged: Campfire, Nature
“In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.”
— John Muir, Our National Parks
Tagged: beauty, Grandeur, Trees, Sierra
“Of all the fire-mountains which, like beacons, once blazed along the Pacific Coast, Mount Rainier is the noblest.”
— John Muir, Our National Parks(Wilderness)
Tagged: Mount Rainier, Pacific Coast, Fire-Mountains
“The world, we are told, was made especially for man—a presumption not supported by all the facts.”
— John Muir, A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf
Tagged: World, Man, Facts
“Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.”
— John Muir, The Wilderness World of John Muir
Tagged: Music, Life, Thrilling
“As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God's ways.”
— John Muir, Wilderness Essays
Tagged: Egocentrism, God
“To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.”
— John Muir, Travels in Alaska
Tagged: Wilderness, Alaska
“Visions of ineffable beauty and harmony, health and exhilaration of body and soul, and grand foundation lessons in Nature's eternal love are the sure reward of every earnest looker in this glorious wilderness.”
— 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: beauty, harmony, Health, Body, Soul, Nature, Wilderness
“No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering matter into stars, or planning the movements of water, or gardening—still all is Beauty!”
— John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir,
Tagged: God, beauty, synonyms, glaciers, Mountains, Stars
“In God's wildness lies the hope of the world—the great fresh, unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.”
— John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir,
Tagged: Wilderness, civilization, wounds, Healing
“Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.”
— John Muir, Our National Parks
Tagged: Nature, beauty, Energy, Winds, Fresh
“One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.”
— John Muir, The Writings of John Muir: Our National Parks
Tagged: Woods, Safety
“Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.”
— John Muir, The Wilderness World of John Muir
Tagged: Spring, Joyful, Enthusiasm
“As for the Mormons one meets, however their doctrines be regarded, they will be found as rich in human kindness as any people in all our broad land, while the dark memories that cloud their earlier history will vanish from the mind as completely as when we bathe in the fountain azure of the Sierra.”
— John Muir, Steep Trails: California-Utah-Nevada-Washington-Oregon-The Grand Canyon
Tagged: Mormons, Sierra, kindness, Dark Memories
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