Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
JOHN MUIRIn the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
More John Muir Quotes
-
-
One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
JOHN MUIR -
There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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 -
Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
JOHN MUIR -
Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
JOHN MUIR -
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
JOHN MUIR -
It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
JOHN MUIR -
Going to the woods is going home.
JOHN MUIR -
As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
JOHN MUIR -
Wildness is a necessity.
JOHN MUIR -
Nothing truly wild is unclean.
JOHN MUIR -
Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
JOHN MUIR -
I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
JOHN MUIR -
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
JOHN MUIR -
Wander 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 MUIR