Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
JOHN MUIREverything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
More John Muir Quotes
-
-
In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
JOHN MUIR -
It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
JOHN MUIR -
Take me into the mountains.
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 -
Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
JOHN MUIR -
At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
JOHN MUIR -
I 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 MUIR -
Learn to live like the wild animals
JOHN MUIR -
Thousands 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 -
The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
JOHN MUIR -
Going to the woods is going home.
JOHN MUIR -
Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
JOHN MUIR -
This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
JOHN MUIR -
God 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 MUIR -
As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
JOHN MUIR






