I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
JOHN MUIRNo synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
More John Muir Quotes
-
-
Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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 -
The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
JOHN MUIR -
Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
JOHN MUIR -
Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
JOHN MUIR -
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
JOHN MUIR -
This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
JOHN MUIR -
It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
JOHN MUIR -
Nothing truly wild is unclean.
JOHN MUIR -
Take me into the mountains.
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 -
But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
JOHN MUIR -
What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
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 -
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