John Muir Quotes

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.

It may not be easy, life isn't easy, but dreams keep you alive.

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

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

The grand show is eternal It is always sunrise somewhere

The battle for conservation will go on endlessly. It is part of the universal battle between right and wrong.

I wonder if leaves feel lonely when they see their neighbors falling?

Come to the woods, for here is rest.

We all flow from one fountain.

Wherever we go in the mountains, we find more than we seek.

In the eternal youth of Nature, you may renew your own.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.

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

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

Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods.

God never made an ugly landscape. All that sun shines on is beautiful, so long as it is wild.

The sun shines not on us but in us.

Nature in her green, tranquil woods heals and soothes all afflictions.

Going into the woods, is going home

Look! Nature is overflowing with the grandeur of God!

The mountains are calling and I must go.

In this silent, serene wilderness the weary can gain a heart-bath in perfect peace.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

Wilderness is a necessity... there must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls.

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

Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.

I’d rather be in the mountains thinking of God, than in church thinking about the mountains.