John Muir Quotes, Thoughts and images

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

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

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

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

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

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

The mountains are calling and I must go.

Look! Nature is overflowing with the grandeur of God!

Going into the woods, is going home

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

The sun shines not on us but in us.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We all flow from one fountain.

Come to the woods, for here is rest.

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

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

The grand show is eternal It is always sunrise somewhere

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

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

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

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.