Author: 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

- John Muir

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

- 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.

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

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

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