JOhn Muir Quotes

Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.

John Muir

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest 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

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

John Muir

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

John Muir

Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.

John Muir

The clearest way to the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

John Muir

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

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

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

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

John Muir

"...Good luck and Good work for the happy mountain raindrops, each one of them a high waterfall in itself, descending from the cliffs and hollows of the clouds to the cliffs and hollows of the rocks, out of the sky-thunder into the thunder of the falling rivers

John Muir

I . . . am always glad to touch the living rock again and dip my hand in the high mountain air.

John Muir

Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom on the mountaineerÖ Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The wind will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

John Muir

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike.

John Muir