The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
JOHN MUIRWe are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
More John Muir Quotes
-
-
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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 -
Going to the mountains is going home.
JOHN MUIR -
I 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 MUIR -
I never saw a discontented tree.
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 -
And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
JOHN MUIR -
The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
JOHN MUIR -
Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
JOHN MUIR -
Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
JOHN MUIR -
It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
JOHN MUIR -
I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
JOHN MUIR -
One must labor for beauty as for bread.
JOHN MUIR -
In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
JOHN MUIR -
This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
JOHN MUIR