As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
JOHN MUIRI never saw a discontented tree.
More John Muir Quotes
-
-
Nothing truly wild is unclean.
JOHN MUIR -
There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
JOHN MUIR -
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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 -
Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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 -
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
JOHN MUIR -
Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
JOHN MUIR -
Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
JOHN MUIR -
This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
JOHN MUIR -
Learn to live like the wild animals
JOHN MUIR -
Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
JOHN MUIR -
Nothing truly wild is unclean.
JOHN MUIR -
Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
JOHN MUIR -
Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
JOHN MUIR