Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
JOHN MUIRMountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
JOHN MUIRSpring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
JOHN MUIRIt seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
JOHN MUIRAnd into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
JOHN MUIRBetween every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
JOHN MUIRAs age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
JOHN MUIREarth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
JOHN MUIRHow glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
JOHN MUIRIt is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
JOHN MUIRThe wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
JOHN MUIRWander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
JOHN MUIROne should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
JOHN MUIROne must labor for beauty as for bread.
JOHN MUIRI ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
JOHN MUIRAt the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
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 MUIR