John Muir Quotes (18 quotations)
1. 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. Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings, while incense is ever flowing from the balsam bells and leaves. No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself. - John Muir
2. 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 freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn. - John Muir
3. Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. - John Muir
4. God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools. - John Muir
5. How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! - John Muir
6. 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 we do. They go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far! - John Muir
7. 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
8. In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. - John Muir
9. Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life. - John Muir
10. Of all the fire mountains which like beacons, once blazed along the Pacific Coast, Mount Rainier is the noblest. - John Muir
11. The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest of wilderness. - John Muir
12. The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls. - John Muir
13. The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual. - John Muir
14. There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords. - John Muir
15. Tug on anything at all and you'll find it connected to everything else in the universe. - John Muir
16. We all travel the milky way together, trees and men... trees are travellers, in the ordinary sense. They make journeys, not very extensive ones, it is true: but our own little comes and goes are only little more than tree-wavings - many of them not so much. - John Muir
17. When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. - John Muir
18. When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. - John Muir
2. 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 freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn. - John Muir
3. Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. - John Muir
4. God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools. - John Muir
5. How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! - John Muir
6. 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 we do. They go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far! - John Muir
7. 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
8. In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. - John Muir
9. Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life. - John Muir
10. Of all the fire mountains which like beacons, once blazed along the Pacific Coast, Mount Rainier is the noblest. - John Muir
11. The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest of wilderness. - John Muir
12. The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls. - John Muir
13. The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual. - John Muir
14. There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords. - John Muir
15. Tug on anything at all and you'll find it connected to everything else in the universe. - John Muir
16. We all travel the milky way together, trees and men... trees are travellers, in the ordinary sense. They make journeys, not very extensive ones, it is true: but our own little comes and goes are only little more than tree-wavings - many of them not so much. - John Muir
17. When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. - John Muir
18. When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. - John Muir
