Author: John Muir

Quotes

The mountains are calling and I must go.

The mountains are calling and I must go.

- 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.

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

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

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

- John Muir

Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God.

Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God.

- John Muir

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.

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

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

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

- John Muir

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

- 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.

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

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

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

- John Muir

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