Quotes About John Muir

Now, wilderness can be seen as a useful fiction, a fiction constructed by John Muir and his heirs and deployed to keep places from being destroyed by resource extraction and wholesale development.

Nature in her green, tranquil woods heals and soothes all afflictions.

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

John Muir, Earth — planet, Universe [ Muir's home address, as inscribed on the inside front cover of his first field journal ]

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.

I care to live only to entice people to look at nature's loveliness," Muir said

Naturalist John Muir concluded sadly, "It is a great comfort … that vast multitudes of creatures, great and small and infinite in number, lived and had a good time in God's love before man was created.

This is Nature's own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.

We were glad, however, to get within reach of information…

Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.