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John Muir Quotes

List of quotations and sayings by the american environmentalist John Muir on topics like nature, trees, mountains

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

    — John Muir on travel
    201
  • 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 on health
    34
  • 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.

    — John Muir on environmental
    19
  • John Muir quote In every walk with the nature one receives far more than he seeks.

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

    — John Muir
    36
  • Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

    — John Muir on wisdom
    17
  • In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

    — John Muir on wisdom
    12
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  • 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.

    — John Muir on environmental
    11
  • John Muir quote I every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

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

    — John Muir
    17
  • 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.

    — John Muir on nature
    9
  • How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

    — John Muir on inspirational
    8
  • The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness.

    — John Muir on nature
    7
  • John Muir quote Thousands of tired, never-shaken, over civilized people are beginning to find ou

    Thousands of tired, never-shaken, over civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountain is going home, that wilderness is a necessity.

    — John Muir
    23
  • When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

    — John Muir on environmental
    4
  • The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

    — John Muir on civilization
    4
  • Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

    — John Muir on coming
    2
  • John Muir quote Keep close to nature's heart... and break clear away, once in a while, and climb

    Keep close to nature's heart... and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain, or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

    — John Muir
    5
  • About John Muir

    Name John Muir
    Quotes 70 quotations
    Nationality American
    Profession Environmentalist
    Birthday October 16
    About John Muir was a Scottish-born American naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States. His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature, especially in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, have been read by millions. His activism helped to save the Yosemite Valley, Sequoia National Park and other wilderness areas.
    Top topics nature, trees, mountains, forests, world
  • Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

    Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you... while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

    — John Muir on climbing
    2
  • A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.

    — John Muir on trees
    1
  • Sheep, like people, are ungovernable when hungry.

    — John Muir on people
    0
  • John Muir quote The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.

    The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.

    — John Muir
    10
  • When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

    — John Muir on attached
    0
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  • In all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride;

    and the start was so sudden, and the end came so soon, I thought but little of the danger that goes with this sort of travel, though one thinks fast at such times.

    — John Muir on ride
    0
  • As soon as a redwood is cut down or burned, it sends up a crowd of eager, hopeful shoots, which, if allowed to grow, would in a few decades attain a height of a hundred feet, and the strongest of them would finally become giants as great as the original tree.

    — John Muir on tree
    0
  • John Muir quote Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.

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

    — John Muir
    17
  • How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this glorious starry firmament for a roof! In such places standing alone on the mountaintop it is easy to realize that whatever special nests we make---leaves and moss like the marmots and birds, or tents or piled stone---we all dwell in a house of one room---the world with a firmament for its roof---and are sailing the celestial spaces without leaving any track.

    — John Muir on sailing
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  • The waving of a pine tree on the top of a mountain - a magic wand in Nature's hand - every devout mountaineer knows its power; but the marvelous beauty value of what the Scotch call a breckan in a still dell, what poet has sung this?

    — John Muir on nature
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  • Bread without flesh is a good diet, as on many botanical excursions I have proved. Tea also may easily be ignored. Just bread and water and delightful toil is all I need - not unreasonably much, yet one ought to be trained and tempered to enjoy life in these brave wilds in full independence of any particular kind of nourishment.

    — John Muir on life
    0
  • Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally. But in some of nature's forests, the adventurous traveler seems a feeble, unwelcome creature; wild beasts and the weather trying to kill him, the rank, tangled vegetation, armed with spears and stinging needles, barring his way and making life a hard struggle.

    — John Muir on life
    0
  • During my first years in the Sierra, I was ever calling on everybody within reach to admire them, but I found no one half warm enough until Emerson came. I had read his essays, and felt sure that of all men he would best interpret the sayings of these noble mountains and trees. Nor was my faith weakened when I met him in Yosemite.

    — John Muir on faith
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  • The power of imagination makes us infinite.

    — John Muir on inspirational
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  • The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God's universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.

    — John Muir on god
    0
  • Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living in the earth and eating slimy worms are yet as clean as seals or fishes, whose lives are one perpetual wash.

    — John Muir on food
    0
  • 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.

    — John Muir on nature
    0
  • A queer fellow and a jolly fellow is the grasshopper.

    Up the mountains he comes on excursions, how high I don't know, but at least as far and high as Yosemite tourists.

    — John Muir on mountains
    0
  • The making of the far-famed New York Central Park was opposed by even good men, with misguided pluck, perseverance, and ingenuity, but straight right won its way, and now that park is appreciated. So we confidently believe it will be with our great national parks and forest reservations.

    — John Muir on perseverance
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  • From the dust of the earth, from the common elementary fund, the Creator has made Homo sapiens. From the same material he has made every other creature, however noxious and insignificant to us. They are earth-born companions and our fellow mortals.

    — John Muir on earth
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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 on silence
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  • Sequoia seeds have flat wings, and glint and glance in their flight like a boy's kite.

    — John Muir on boy
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  • How terribly downright must be the utterances of storms and earthquakes to those accustomed to the soft hypocrisies of society.

    — John Muir on society
    0
  • The practical importance of the preservation of our forests is augmented by their relations to climate, soil and streams.

    — John Muir on climate
    0
  • Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.

    — John Muir on work
    0
  • There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.

    — John Muir on plants
    0
  • The redwood is the glory of the Coast Range.

    It extends along the western slope, in a nearly continuous belt about ten miles wide, from beyond the Oregon boundary to the south of Santa Cruz, a distance of nearly four hundred miles, and in massive, sustained grandeur and closeness of growth surpasses all the other timber woods of the world.

    — John Muir on growth
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  • I have heard of Texas pioneers living without bread or anything made from the cereals for months without suffering, using the breast-meat of wild turkeys for bread. Of this kind, they had plenty in the good old days when life, though considered less safe, was fussed over the less.

    — John Muir on life
    0
  • Beetles and butterflies are sometimes restricted to small areas.

    Each mountain in a range, and even the different zones of a mountain, may have its own peculiar species. But the house-fly seems to be everywhere. I wonder if any island in mid-ocean is flyless.

    — John Muir on small
    0
  • No traveler, whether a tree lover or not, will ever forget his first walk in a sugar-pine forest. The majestic crowns approaching one another make a glorious canopy, through the feathery arches of which the sunbeams pour, silvering the needles and gilding the stately columns and the ground into a scene of enchantment.

    — John Muir on tree
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  • When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.

    — John Muir on wild
    0
  • Of all the mountain ranges I have climbed, I like the Sierra Nevada the best.

    — John Muir on mountain
    0
  • The dispersal of juniper seeds is effected by the plum and cherry plan of hiring birds at the cost of their board, and thus obtaining the use of a pair of extra good wings.

    — John Muir on birds
    0
  • One of the best ways to see tree flowers is to climb one of the tallest trees and to get into close, tingling touch with them, and then look broad.

    — John Muir on tree
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  • Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed - chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones.

    — John Muir on fool
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  • To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.

    — John Muir on travel
    0
  • The wild Indian power of escaping observation, even where there is little or no cover to hide in, was probably slowly acquired in hard hunting and fighting lessons while trying to approach game, take enemies by surprise, or get safely away when compelled to retreat.

    — John Muir on power
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  • Indians walk softly and hurt the landscape hardly more than the birds and squirrels, and their brush and bark huts last hardly longer than those of wood rats, while their more enduring monuments, excepting those wrought on the forests by the fires they made to improve their hunting grounds, vanish in a few centuries.

    — John Muir on walk
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  • All the world lies warm in one heart, yet the Sierra seems to get more light than other mountains. The weather is mostly sunshine embellished with magnificent storms, and nearly everything shines from base to summit - the rocks, streams, lakes, glaciers, irised falls, and the forests of silver fir and silver pine.

    — John Muir on sunshine
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  • I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness.

    Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God's mountains.

    — John Muir on nature
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