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 MUIRThe making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
More John Muir Quotes
-
-
Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
JOHN MUIR -
In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
JOHN MUIR -
I 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 MUIR -
It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
JOHN MUIR -
As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
JOHN MUIR -
I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
JOHN MUIR -
But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
JOHN MUIR -
The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
JOHN MUIR -
Learn to live like the wild animals
JOHN MUIR -
The mountains are calling and I must go.
JOHN MUIR -
Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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 -
Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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 -
In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
JOHN MUIR