I never saw a discontented tree.
JOHN MUIRI never saw a discontented tree.
JOHN MUIRWildness is a necessity.
JOHN MUIREarth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
JOHN MUIRBut we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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 MUIRIn God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
JOHN MUIRWalk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
JOHN MUIRThe deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
JOHN MUIRNight is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
JOHN MUIRIn the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
JOHN MUIRIn our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
JOHN MUIRLearn to live like the wild animals
JOHN MUIRGod has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
JOHN MUIRA part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
JOHN MUIRI have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
JOHN MUIRThe world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
JOHN MUIR