John Muir Quotes

As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.

As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.

This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.

It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.