As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
JOHN MUIRNature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
More John Muir Quotes
-
-
In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
JOHN MUIR -
One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
JOHN MUIR -
One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
JOHN MUIR -
Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
JOHN MUIR -
Take me into the mountains.
JOHN MUIR -
A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
JOHN MUIR -
I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
JOHN MUIR -
God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
JOHN MUIR -
Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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 -
Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
JOHN MUIR -
Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
JOHN MUIR -
This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
JOHN MUIR -
The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
JOHN MUIR -
In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
JOHN MUIR -
Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
JOHN MUIR -
The sun shines not on us but in us.
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.
JOHN MUIR -
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 -
Learn to live like the wild animals
JOHN MUIR -
The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
JOHN MUIR -
This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
JOHN MUIR -
But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
JOHN MUIR -
Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
JOHN MUIR -
The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
JOHN MUIR -
Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
JOHN MUIR