Quotes from John Muir

I am well again, I came to life in the cool winds and crystal waters of the mountains.

How lavish is Nature building, pulling down, creating, destroying, chasing every material particle from form to form, ever changing, ever beautiful.

There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties

Nature had gathered her choicest treasures , to draw her lovers into close and confiding communion with her

In the woods is perpetual youth.

One day's exposure to mountains is better than cartloads of books. See how willingly Nature poses herself upon photographers' plates. No earthly chemicals are so sensitive as those of the human soul.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike.

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

Going to the woods is going home.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. -John Muir, naturalist, explorer, and writer (1838-1914)

Come to the woods, for here is rest, ...climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.

Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.

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.

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

While cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

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

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

I always befriended animals and have said many a good word for them. Even to the least-loved mosquitoes I gave many a meal, and told them to go in peace.

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

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

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

No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.

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.