Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
JOHN MUIREvery sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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 MUIRIn the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
JOHN MUIRHow narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
JOHN MUIRI am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
JOHN MUIRWalk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
JOHN MUIRNothing truly wild is unclean.
JOHN MUIRWhen one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
JOHN MUIRGoing to the woods is going home.
JOHN MUIRIn every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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 MUIRRaindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
JOHN MUIRTherefore all childish fear must be put away.
JOHN MUIRSociety speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
JOHN MUIRBut it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
JOHN MUIRWildness is a necessity.
JOHN MUIR