quotes by John Muir

"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world."
— John Muir

"The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness."
— John Muir

"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

"In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks."
— John Muir

"Keep close to Nature's heart...and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

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— John Muir

"The mountains are calling and I must go."
— John Muir

"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.
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— John Muir

"The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark."
— John Muir

"The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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— John Muir

"The sun shines not on us but in us."
— John Muir

"In God's wildness lies the hope of the world."
— John Muir

"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

"Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant."
— John Muir (Travels in Alaska)

"Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity..."
— John Muir

"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 (A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf)

""One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.""
— John Muir (Our National Parks)

"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

""One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.""
— John Muir (Our National Parks)

"There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties"
— John Muir

"Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress..."
— John Muir

"Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal."
— John Muir

"Everybody needs beauty...places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike."
— John Muir

"Never while anything is left of me shall this... camp be forgotten. It has fairly grown into me, not merely as memory pictures, but as part and parcel of mind and body alike."
— John Muir

""So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything."

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— John Muir

"One day's exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books."
— John Muir

"Who wouldn't be a mountaineer! Up here all the world's prizes seem nothing"
— John Muir

"It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest."
— John Muir (Our National Parks)

"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe."
— John Muir

"The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness
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— John Muir

"The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right."
— John Muir

"Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get---people,storms, guardian angels, or sheep...."
— John Muir

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

""In God's wildness lies the hope of the world.""
— John Muir

"Going to the mountains is going home."
— John Muir

"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe."
— John Muir

"How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!"
— John Muir

"Most people are on the world, not in it-- having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them-- undiffused seporate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but seporate. "
— John Muir

"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. "
— John Muir

"Keep close to Nature's heart...and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean."
— John Muir