Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
JOHN MUIRGo quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
JOHN MUIRI care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
JOHN MUIRYet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
JOHN MUIRAs age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
JOHN MUIRThe power of imagination makes us infinite.
JOHN MUIRLet children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
JOHN MUIRWhen one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
JOHN MUIRAnother glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
JOHN MUIRBeauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
JOHN MUIRThere is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
JOHN MUIRNothing dollarable is safe.
JOHN MUIRThe soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
JOHN MUIRThe galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
JOHN MUIREvery sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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.
JOHN MUIRThousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
JOHN MUIR