John Muir Sayings and Quotes

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt. John Muir
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. John Muir
The sun shines not on us but in us. The Rivers flow not past, but through us. John Muir
To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world. John Muir
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
The world's big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark. John Muir
In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks. John Muir
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
Nature in her green, tranquil woods heals and soothes all afflictions. John Muir
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. John Muir
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
The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. John Muir
In God's wildness lies the hope of the world—the great fresh, unlighted, unredeemed wilderness. John Muir
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
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
The power of imagination makes us infinite. John Muir
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
The mountains are calling and I must go. John Muir
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
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. John Muir
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. John Muir
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe John Muir
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. John Muir