Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
JOHN MUIROf all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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 MUIRGoing to the woods is going home.
JOHN MUIRI never saw a discontented tree.
JOHN MUIREarth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
JOHN MUIRThe world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
JOHN MUIRBetween every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
JOHN MUIRI only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
JOHN MUIRGo where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
JOHN MUIRAs age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
JOHN MUIROne must labor for beauty as for bread.
JOHN MUIRNature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
JOHN MUIRAll the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
JOHN MUIRSo 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 MUIRThe power of imagination makes us infinite.
JOHN MUIRIn God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
JOHN MUIR