Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
JOHN MUIRNight is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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.
JOHN MUIRBetween every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
JOHN MUIROne should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
JOHN MUIRThe clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
JOHN MUIRAs long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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 rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
JOHN MUIRI ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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 MUIRIt is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
JOHN MUIRIn God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
JOHN MUIRThere is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
JOHN MUIRHidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
JOHN MUIROf all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
JOHN MUIRThe sun shines not on us but in us.
JOHN MUIR