When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
JOHN MUIRIn drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
More John Muir Quotes
-
-
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 -
Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
JOHN MUIR -
Nothing truly wild is unclean.
JOHN MUIR -
One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
JOHN MUIR -
Wildness is a necessity.
JOHN MUIR -
Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
JOHN MUIR -
The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
JOHN MUIR -
The mountains are calling and I must go.
JOHN MUIR -
At 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 MUIR -
Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
JOHN MUIR -
Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
JOHN MUIR -
The sun shines not on us but in us.
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 -
Nothing dollarable is safe.
JOHN MUIR -
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