110+ John Muir Quotes On Yosemite, Nature And Death

John Muir was an American environmentalist, conservationist, and advocate of preservation of wilderness areas. He was instrumental in the establishment of the Yosemite National Park and is often referred to as the "Father of the National Parks". Muir was also a prolific writer and his writings about nature and wilderness have been widely read and have had a significant influence on the environmental movement. Following is our collection on famous quotes by John Muir on yosemite, nature, death.

Top 10 John Muir Quotes

1. As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
2. 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.
3. The grand show is eternal It is always sunrise somewhere
4. Of all the path you take in life make sure a few of them are dirt.
5. In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
6. Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.
7. 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.
8. Wilderness is a necessity... there must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls.
9. The mountains are calling and I must go.
10. When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

John Muir Image Quotes

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

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

The mountains are calling and I must go. — John Muir

While cares will drop off like autumn leaves. — John Muir

Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life. — John Muir

The power of imagination makes us infinite. — John Muir

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

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

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! — John Muir

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

John Muir Short Quotes

• The power of imagination makes us infinite.
• The sun shines not on us but in us.
• Going into the woods, is going home
• No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite.
• Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen
• I will follow my instincts, be myself for good or ill, and see what will be the upshot.
• None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild.
• I might have become a millionaire, but I chose to become a tramp.
• Nature in her green, tranquil woods heals and soothes all afflictions.
• Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.

John Muir Quotes About Yosemite

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

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

While cares will drop off like autumn leaves. — John Muir

In God's wildness lies the hope of the world. — John Muir

Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. — John Muir

Yosemite Park... None can escape its charms. Its natural beauty cleans and warms like a fire, and you will be willing to stay forever in one place like a tree. — 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

But no temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life...as if into this one mountain mansion Nature had gathered her choicest treasures. — John Muir

In God's wildness lies the hope of the world-the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware. — John Muir

Yosemite Park is a place of rest, a refuge from the roar and dust and weary, nervous, wasting work of the lowlands, in which one gains the advantages of both solitude and society. — John Muir

John Muir Quotes About Nature

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 glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can". — John Muir

When one tugs at a single thing in nature; he finds it attached to the rest of the world. Variant - When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe. Variant - Tug on anything at all and you'll find it connected to everything else in the universe. — John Muir

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. — John Muir

I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news — John Muir

This 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

Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life. — John Muir

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

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

Only spread a fern-frond over a man's head and worldly cares are cast out, and freedom and beauty and peace come in. — John Muir

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

John Muir Quotes About Mountains

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

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! — John Muir

These temple destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism, seem to have a perfect contempt for Nature, and, instead of lifting their eyes to the God of the mountains, lift them to the Almighty Dollar. — John Muir

Going to the mountains is going home. — John Muir

Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts . . . — John Muir

Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity. — 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, channels traced for coming rivers, basins hollowed for lakes. — John Muir

Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action. — John Muir

Of all the fire mountains which like beacons, once blazed along the Pacific Coast, Mount Rainier is the noblest. — John Muir

No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering matter into stars, or planning the movements of water, or gardening - still all is Beauty! — John Muir

John Muir Quotes About Trees

Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life. — John Muir

Any fool can destroy trees, they cannot run away. — John Muir

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 of their bark hides. — John Muir

We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men. — John Muir

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

Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world. — John Muir

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

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

I never saw a discontented tree. — John Muir

Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts; and if people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish. — John Muir

John Muir Quotes About God

Look! Nature is overflowing with the grandeur of God! — John Muir

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread. — John Muir

Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly small mischievous microbes- all are warm with divine radium and must have lots of fun in them. — John Muir

Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. — John Muir

God cannot save them from fools. — John Muir

I wandered away on a glorious botanical and geological excursion, which has lasted nearly fifty years and is not yet completed, always happy and free, poor and rich, without thought of a diploma or of making a name, urged on and on through endless, inspiring Godful beauty. — John Muir

No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. — John Muir

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

No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself. — John Muir

The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted. — John Muir

John Muir Quotes About Life

Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way. — John Muir

One can make a day of any size and regulate the rising and setting of his own sun and the brightness of its shining. — John Muir

Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue. — John Muir

Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where. Life seems neither long nor short, and we take no more heed to save time or make haste than do the trees and stars. This is true freedom, a good practical sort of immortality. — John Muir

Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings. — John Muir

Quench love, and what is left of a man's life but the folding of a few jointed bones and square inches of flesh? Who would call that life? — John Muir

By forces seemingly antagonistic and destructive Nature accomplishes her beneficent designs - now a flood of fire, now a flood of ice, now a flood of water; and again in the fullness of time an outburst of organic life. — John Muir

Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind. — John Muir

I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found. — John Muir

The blessings of one mountain day, whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever. — John Muir

John Muir Quotes About Forests

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

The redwood is one of the few conifers that sprout from the stump and roots, and it declares itself willing to begin immediately to repair the damage of the lumberman and also that of the forest-burner. — John Muir

The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness. — John Muir

The battle we have fought, and are still fighting, for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong. — John Muir

The Big Tree is Nature's forest masterpiece, and so far as I know, the greatest of living things. — John Muir

The finest of the glacier meadow gardens lie ...imbedded in the upper pine forests like lakes of light. — John Muir

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

The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted. The whole continent was a garden, and from the beginning, it seemed to be favored above all the other wild parks and gardens of the globe. — John Muir

In most mills, only the best portions of the best trees are used, while the ruins are left on the ground to feed great fires which kill much of what is left of the less desirable timber, together with the seedlings on which the permanence of the forest depends. — John Muir

Every other civilized nation in the world has been compelled to care for its forests, and so must we if waste and destruction are not to go on to the bitter end, leaving America as barren as Palestine or Spain. — John Muir

John Muir Quotes About World

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

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

C. albus...I think the very loveliest of all the lily family - a spotless soul, plant saint, that every one must love and so be made better. It puts the wildest mountaineer on his good behavior. With this plant the whole world would seem rich though non other existed. — John Muir

Go quietly alone, no harm will befall you. — John Muir

Most people are on the world, not in it-- having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them-- undiffused seporate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but seporate. — John Muir

No words will ever describe the exquisite beauty and charm of this mountain park – Nature’s landscape garden at once tenderly beautiful and sublime. No wonder it draws nature-lovers from all over the world. — John Muir

The last days of this glacial winter are not yet past; we live in 'creation's dawn.' The morning stars still sing together, and the world, though made, is still being made and becoming more beautiful every day. — John Muir

Most people are on the world, not in it. — John Muir

All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world's wildernesses I first should wander. — John Muir

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

John Muir Famous Quotes And Sayings

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

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

The mountains are calling and I must go. — John Muir

To sit in solitude, to think in solitude with only the music of the stream and the cedar to break the flow of silence, there lies the value of wilderness. — John Muir

When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty. — John Muir

The United States government has always been proud of the welcome it has extended to good men of every nation, seeking freedom and homes and bread. — John Muir

Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Here grow the wallflower and the violet. The squirrel will come and sit upon your knee, the logcock will wake you in the morning. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill. Of all the upness accessible to mortals, there is no upness comparable to the mountains. — John Muir

While cares will drop off like autumn leaves. — John Muir

Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life. — John Muir

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

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

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

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! — John Muir

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

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

These beautiful days ... do not exist as mere pictures - maps hung upon the walls of memory to brighten at times when touched by association or will ... They saturate themselves into every part of the body and live always. — John Muir

Lizards of every temper, style, and color dwell here, seemingly as happy and companionable as the birds and squirrels. — John Muir

All Nature's wildness tells the same story: the shocks and outbursts of earthquakes, volcanoes, geysers, roaring, thundering waves and floods, the silent uprush of sap in plants, storms of every sort, each and all, are the orderly, beauty-making love-beats of Nature's heart. — John Muir

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

Wilderness is a necessity ... They will see what I meant in time. There must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls. Food and drink is not all. There is the spiritual. In some it is only a germ, of course, but the germ will grow. — John Muir

Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on seas and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls. — John Muir

So extraordinary is Nature with her choicest treasures, spending plant beauty as she spends sunshine, pouring it forth into land and sea, garden and desert. And so the beauty of lilies falls on angels and men, bears and squirrels, wolves and sheep, birds and bees. — John Muir

The radiance in some places is so great as to be fairly dazzling... every crystal, every flower a window opening into heaven, a mirror reflecting the Creator. — John Muir

The moon is looking down into the canyon, and how marvelously the great rocks kindle to her light! Every dome, and brow, and swelling boss touched by her white rays, glows as if lighted with snow. — John Muir

The water in music the oar forsakes. The air in music the wing forsakes. All things in move in music and write it. The mouse, lizard, and grasshopper sing together on the Turlock sands, sing with the morning stars. — John Muir

Imagination is usually regarded as a synonym for the unreal. Yet is true imagination healthful and real, no more likely to mislead than the coarse senses. Indeed, the power of imagination makes us infinite. — John Muir

...Good luck and Good work for the happy mountain raindrops, each one of them a high waterfall in itself, descending from the cliffs and hollows of the clouds to the cliffs and hollows of the rocks, out of the sky-thunder into the thunder of the falling rivers. — John Muir

Nature is always lovely, invincible, glad, whatever is done and suffered by her creatures. All scars she heals, whether in rocks or water or sky or hearts. — John Muir

I must return to the mountains-to Yosemite. I am told that the winter storms there will not be easily borne, but I am bewitched, enchanted, and tomorrow I must start for the great temple to listen to the winter songs and sermons preached and sung only there. — John Muir

The substance of the winds is too thin for human eyes, their written language is too difficult for human minds, and their spoken language mostly too faint for the ears. — John Muir

Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky. — John Muir

Nothing can be done well at a speed of forty miles a day. The multitude of mixed, novel impressions rapidly piled on one another make only a dreamy, bewildering, swirling blur, most of which is unrememberable. — John Muir

It took more than three thousand years to make some of the trees in these western woods ... Through all the wonderful, eventful centuries since Christ's time-and long before that-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

Nature as a poet, an enthusiastic workingman, becomes more and more visible the farther and higher we go; for the mountains are fountains – beginning places, however related to sources beyond mortal ken. — John Muir

Gigantic second and third growth trees are found in the redwoods, forming magnificent temple-like circles around charred ruins more than a thousand years old. — John Muir

The body seems to feel beauty when exposed to it as it feels the campfire or sunshine, entering not by the eyes alone, but equally through all one's flesh like radiant heat, making a passionate ecstatic pleasure glow not explainable. — 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

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

The axe and saw are insanely busy, chips are flying thick as snowflakes, and every summer thousands of acres of priceless forests, with their underbrush, soil, springs, climate, scenery, and religion, are vanishing away in clouds of smoke, while, except in the national parks, not one forest guard is employed. — John Muir

What wonders lie in every mountain day! — John Muir

When I first caught sight of (Mount Shasta) over the braided folds of the Sacramento Valley I was fifty miles away and afoot, alone and weary. Yet all my blood turned to wine, and I have not been weary since. — John Muir

Man and other civilized animals are the only creatures that ever become dirty. — John Muir

Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get - -people,storms, guardian angels, or sheep. — John Muir

Life Lessons by John Muir

1. John Muir taught us to appreciate and protect nature, emphasizing the importance of conservation and preservation. He believed that the wilderness should be respected and valued, and that humans should strive to live in harmony with the natural world.
2. He also taught us that we should take time to appreciate the beauty of nature, and to take time to explore and learn from the world around us.
3. Muir also showed us that we should never give up on our dreams, and that we should strive to make the world a better place for future generations.