John Muir Quotes

"Memories may escape the action of the will, may sleep a long time, but when stirred by the right influence, though that influence be light as a shadow, they flash into full stature and life with everything in place"

"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings."

"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks."

"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."

"The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness."

"The mountains are calling and I must go."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe."

"There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords."

"How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!"

"The power of imagination makes us infinite."

"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."

"Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen"

"Of all the fire mountains which like beacons, once blazed along the Pacific Coast, Mount Rainier is the noblest."

"“The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.”"

"The battle we have fought, and are still fighting for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong, and we cannot expect to see the end of it ... So we must count on watching and striving for these trees, and should always be glad to find anything so surely good and noble to strive for."

"The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes,the heart of the people is always right."

"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul."