28 Quotes By John Muir


Take a course in good water and air and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone no harm will befall you.
John Muir on alone

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
John Muir on beauty

Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.
John Muir on environmental

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.
John Muir on environmental

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
John Muir on environmental

Take a course in good water and air and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone no harm will befall you.
John Muir on environmental

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.
John Muir on god

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
John Muir on good

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
John Muir on health

The power of imagination makes us infinite.
John Muir on imagination

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
John Muir on inspirational

The power of imagination makes us infinite.
John Muir on inspirational

The mountains are calling and I must go.
John Muir on nature

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
John Muir on nature

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.
John Muir on nature

Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.
John Muir on nature

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
John Muir on nature

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
John Muir on nature

Take a course in good water and air and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone no harm will befall you.
John Muir on nature

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
John Muir on nature