Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old John Muir quotes, John Muir sayings, and John Muir proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
How still the woods seem from here, yet how lively a stir the hidden animals are making; digging, gnawing, biting, eyes shining, at work and play, getting food, rearing young, roving through the underbrush, climbing the rocks, wading solitary marshes, tracing the banks of the lakes and streams! Insect swarms are dancing in the sunbeams, burrowing in the ground, diving, swimming,—a cloud of witnesses telling Nature's.John Muir
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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.John Muir
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Long, blue, spiky-edged shadows crept out across the snow-fields, while a rosy glow, at first scarce discernible, gradually deepened and suffused every mountain-top, flushing the glaciers and the harsh crags above them. This was the alpenglow, to me the most impressive of all the terrestrial manifestations of God. 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
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One learns that the world, though made, is yet being made. That this is still the morning of creation. That mountains, long conceived, are now being born, brought to light by the glaciers, channels traced for coming rivers, basins hollowed for lakes.John Muir
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Keep close to Nature’s heart, yourself; and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods.John Muir
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Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul.John Muir
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand straining, leveling tempests and floods; But he cannot save them from fools.John Muir
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.John Muir
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.John Muir
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The sun shines not on us but in us. The Rivers flow not past, but through us.John Muir
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.John Muir
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As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I'll acquaint myself with the wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can.John Muir
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The world's big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.John Muir
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In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.John Muir
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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
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Nature in her green, tranquil woods heals and soothes all afflictions.John Muir
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.John Muir
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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.John Muir
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The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.John Muir
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In God's wildness lies the hope of the world—the great fresh, unlighted, unredeemed wilderness. John Muir
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The tendency nowadays to wander in wilderness is delightful to see. Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life. John Muir
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The water in music the oar forsakes. The air in music the wing forsakes. All things move in music and write it. The mouse, lizard, and grasshopper sing together on the Turlock sands, sing with the morning stars.John Muir
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.John Muir
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grasses and gentians of glacial meadows, in craggy garden nooks full of nature’s darlings.John Muir
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The mountains are calling and I must go.John Muir
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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
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In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.John Muir
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.John Muir
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universeJohn Muir
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.John Muir