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 MUIROnly 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 MUIROne must labor for beauty as for bread.
JOHN MUIREvery sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
JOHN MUIRI care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
JOHN MUIREarth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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 MUIRAs if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
JOHN MUIRBetween every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
JOHN MUIRGo quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
JOHN MUIRWhen we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
JOHN MUIREverybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
JOHN MUIRAnother glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
JOHN MUIRClimb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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 MUIRNothing dollarable is safe.
JOHN MUIRThe galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
JOHN MUIR