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John Muir Quotes | Quotes said by John Muir

  • John Muir Quote #1

    A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.


  • John Muir Quote #2

    A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm,
    waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like
    worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their
    songs never cease. -John Muir, naturalist, explorer, and writer (1838-1914)

  • John Muir Quote #3

    Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.

  • John Muir Quote #4

    Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where. Life seems neither long nor short, and we take no more heed to save time or make haste than do the trees and stars. This is true freedom, a good practical sort of immortality.

  • John Muir Quote #5

    Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

  • John Muir Quote #6

    Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.

  • John Muir Quote #7

    Even the sick should try these so-called dangerous passes, because for every unfortunate they kill, they cure a thousand.

  • John Muir Quote #8

    Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.

  • John Muir Quote #9

    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 Quote #10

    Everyone needs beauty as well as bread, places to play and pray, where nature heals and give strength to body and soul alike.

  • John Muir Quote #11

    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 Quote #12

    Going to the woods is going home.

  • John Muir Quote #13

    Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.

  • John Muir Quote #14

    Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.

  • John Muir Quote #15

    How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

  • John Muir Quote #16

    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 Quote #17

    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 Quote #18

    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 Quote #19

    I was awakened by a tremendous earthquake, and though I hadn ever before enjoyed a storm of this sort, the strange thrilling motion could not be mistaken, and I ran out of my cabin, both glad and frightened, shouting, A noble earthquake! A noble earthquake feeling sure I was going to learn something.

  • John Muir Quote #20

    If for a moment you are inclined to regard these taluses as mere draggled, chaotic dumps, climb to the top of one of them, and run down without any haggling, puttering hesitation, boldly jumping from boulder to boulder with even speed. You will then find your feet playing a tune, and quickly discover the music and poetry of these magnificent rock piles -- a fine lesson; and all Nature's wildness tells the same story -- the shocks and outbursts of earthquakes, volcanoes, geysers, roaring, thundering waves and floods, the silent uprush of sap in plants, storms of every sort -- each and all are the orderly beauty-making love-beats of Nature's heart.

  • John Muir Quote #21

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

  • John Muir Quote #22

    John Muir, Earth — planet, Universe

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

  • John Muir Quote #23

    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 Quote #24

    Long, blue, spiky-edged shadows crept out across the snow-fields, while a rosy glow, at first scarce discernible, gradually deepened and suffused every mountain-top, flushing the glaciers and the harsh crags above them. This was the alpenglow, to me the most impressive of all the terrestrial manifestations of God. At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.

  • John Muir Quote #25

    Most people are on the world, not in it — have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them — undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.

  • John Muir Quote #26

    Nothing truly wild is unclean.

  • John Muir Quote #27

    Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.

  • John Muir Quote #28

    On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death. ... Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life, and that the grave has no victory, for it never fights.

  • John Muir Quote #29

    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 Quote #30

    Over the summit, I saw the so-called Mono desert lying dreamily silent in the thick, purple light -- a desert of heavy sun-glare beheld from a desert of ice-burnished granite.

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