Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
JOHN MUIRWhen one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
More John Muir Quotes
-
-
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 MUIR -
How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
JOHN MUIR -
Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
JOHN MUIR -
One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
JOHN MUIR -
So 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 MUIR -
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
JOHN MUIR -
As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
JOHN MUIR -
Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
JOHN MUIR -
Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
JOHN MUIR -
Take me into the mountains.
JOHN MUIR -
If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
JOHN MUIR -
Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
JOHN MUIR -
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
JOHN MUIR -
It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
JOHN MUIR -
The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
JOHN MUIR






