Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
JOHN MUIRLet children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
JOHN MUIRThis is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
JOHN MUIRHandle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
JOHN MUIRThe clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
JOHN MUIRI only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
JOHN MUIRBut it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
JOHN MUIRI only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
JOHN MUIREvery hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
JOHN MUIRWalk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
JOHN MUIRNothing truly wild is unclean.
JOHN MUIRMost people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
JOHN MUIRIn every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
JOHN MUIRI am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
JOHN MUIRThe world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
JOHN MUIRWhen we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
JOHN MUIRNature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
JOHN MUIR