John Muir Quotes 2022
1. “Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.” — John Muir
2. “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
3. “Going to the mountains is going home.” — John Muir
4. “When one is alone at night in the depths of these woods, the stillness is at once awful and sublime. Every leaf seems to speak.” — John Muir
5. “I bade adieu to mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God.” — John Muir
6. “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
7. “Hiking – I don’t like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains not hike!” — John Muir
8. “The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.” — John Muir
9. “The snow is melting into music.” — John Muir
10. “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.” — John Muir
11. “Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.” ― John Muir
12. “Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.” — John Muir
13. “We are not in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.” — John Muir
14. “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
15. “Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.” — John Muir
16. “Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.” — John Muir
17. “I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.” ― John Muir
18. “One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.” ― John Muir
19. “One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.” ― John Muir
20. “Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fibre thrilling like harp strings.” ― John Muir
21. “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.” ― John Muir
22. “How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!” ― John Muir
23. “One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.” ― John Muir
24. “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.” ― John Muir
25. “There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.” ― John Muir
26. “Nothing truly wild is unclean.” ― John Muir
27. “Hidden in the glorious wildness like unlined gold.” ― John Muir
28. “When we tug at a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world.” ― John Muir
29. “We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.” ― John Muir
30. “Not blind opposition to progress, but opposition to blind progress…” ― John Muir
31. “Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.” ― John Muir
32. “The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.” ― John Muir
33. “When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” ― John Muir
34. “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” ― John Muir
35. “The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.” ― John Muir
36. “And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul” ― John Muir
37. “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
38. “In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.” ― John Muir
39. “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
40. “The sun shines not on us but in us.” ― John Muir
41. “The world, we are told, was made especially for man — a presumption not supported by all the facts.” ― John Muir
42. “The mountains are calling, and I must go.” ― John Muir
43. “Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.” ― John Muir
44. “Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.” ― John Muir
45. “Going to the mountains is going home.” ― John Muir
46. “We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.” ― John Muir
47. “Everybody needs beauty…places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.” ― John Muir
48. “Going to the woods is going home.” ― John Muir
49. “Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.” ― John Muir
50. “Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.” ― John Muir
51. “Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing” ― John Muir
52. “The power of imagination makes us infinite.” ― John Muir
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