Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
JOHN MUIREverything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
JOHN MUIRI never saw a discontented tree.
JOHN MUIRAnother glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
JOHN MUIRGo quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
JOHN MUIRHidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
JOHN MUIRAnyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
JOHN MUIRIn our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
JOHN MUIROn no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
JOHN MUIRMountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
JOHN MUIRNothing truly wild is unclean.
JOHN MUIRI only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
JOHN MUIRFew places in this world are more dangerous than home.
JOHN MUIRAs long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
JOHN MUIRThe galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
JOHN MUIRIn the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
JOHN MUIRWildness is a necessity.
JOHN MUIR