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 MUIRThe power of imagination makes us infinite.
More John Muir Quotes
-
-
Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
JOHN MUIR -
The sun shines not on us but in us.
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 -
Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
JOHN MUIR -
Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
JOHN MUIR -
But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
JOHN MUIR -
Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
JOHN MUIR -
We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
JOHN MUIR -
Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
JOHN MUIR -
Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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 -
In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
JOHN MUIR -
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
JOHN MUIR -
The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
JOHN MUIR -
One must labor for beauty as for bread.
JOHN MUIR