John Muir Quotes

“People ought to ‘saunter’ in the mountains—not ‘hike!”
― Tim Flinders, John Muir: Spiritual Writings

“Gloria in excelsis”
― Tim Flinders, John Muir: Spiritual Writings

“The white, rayless light of morning, seen when I was alone amid the peaks of the California Sierra, had always seemed to me the most telling of all the terrestrial manifestations of God.”
― Tim Flinders, John Muir: Spiritual Writings

“Every purely natural object is a conductor of divinity, and we have but to expose ourselves in a clean condition to any of these conductors to be fed and nourished by them. Only in this way can we procure our daily spirit bread. Only thus may we be filled with the Holy Ghost.”
― Tim Flinders, John Muir: Spiritual Writings

“Responsive, we are part of nature now, neither old nor young, but immortal in a terrestrial way, neither sick nor well….”
― Tim Flinders, John Muir: Spiritual Writings

“The universe would be incomplete without man; but it would also be incomplete without the smallest trans-microscopic creature that dwells beyond our conceitful eyes and knowledge.”
― Tim Flinders, John Muir: Spiritual Writings

“But 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, and that the grave has no victory, for it never fights. All is divine harmony.”
― Tim Flinders, John Muir: Spiritual Writings

“Lingered in this sanctuary a long time thanking the Lord with all my heart for his goodness and allowing me to enter and enjoy it.”
― Tim Flinders, John Muir: Spiritual Writings

“You say that good men are ‘nearer to the heart of God than are woods and fields, rocks and waters,’ ” Muir responded with uncharacteristic heat. “Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love.”42”
― Tim Flinders, John Muir: Spiritual Writings

“In October 1890 two national parks were created, Sequoia and Yosemite”
― Tim Flinders, John Muir: Spiritual Writings

“The first was his decision in 1867 to abandon professional life, distribute his possessions to friends and family, and enter the American wilderness in an “unconditional surrender” to its call.”
― Tim Flinders, John Muir: Spiritual Writings

“His most spiritually revelatory work, My First Summer in the Sierras,”
― Tim Flinders, John Muir: Spiritual Writings

“bade adieu to mechanical inventions,” he wrote about the decisive moment, “determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God.”
― Tim Flinders, John Muir: Spiritual Writings

“Every natural object is a conductor of divinity,” he exhorted, “and only by coming into contact with them…may we be filled with the Holy Ghost.”
― Tim Flinders, John Muir: Spiritual Writings

“Muir was emphatic about the sacred quality of nature and its restorative effects upon the overly civilized and consequently diminished human spirit.”
― Tim Flinders, John Muir: Spiritual Writings