Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
JOHN MUIRAnother glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
More John Muir Quotes
-
-
No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
JOHN MUIR -
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
JOHN MUIR -
Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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 -
I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
JOHN MUIR -
The mountains are calling and I must go.
JOHN MUIR -
Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
JOHN MUIR -
Going to the woods is going home.
JOHN MUIR -
In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
JOHN MUIR -
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
JOHN MUIR -
Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
JOHN MUIR -
Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
JOHN MUIR -
One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
JOHN MUIR -
I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
JOHN MUIR -
All 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 MUIR -
Nothing truly wild is unclean.
JOHN MUIR -
We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
JOHN MUIR -
Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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 -
There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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 -
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 -
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
JOHN MUIR -
This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
JOHN MUIR -
Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
JOHN MUIR -
I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
JOHN MUIR