Quotes by John Muir

• Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
• 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.
• In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
• How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• The mountains are calling and I must go.
• Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
• The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
• When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
• Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!
• To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
• The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
• The power of imagination makes us infinite.
• One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.
• 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.
• There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.
• In the silence of nature, we find ourselves.
• The power of imagination makes us infinite
• Time spent among trees is never wasted.
• The mountains are calling, and I must go.
• Time spent among trees is never time wasted.
• Climb the mountains not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy the air and behold the beauty upon reaching the summit.
• Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
• Climb the mountains not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy the air, and see the world from a different perspective.
• In every walk with nature one receives far more than he sfeeks.
• Climb mountains not just so the world can see you, but so you can see the world.
• True adventure is not just seeking new landscapes, but seeing with new eyes.
• Adventure is just a way of feigning adulthood while committed to avoiding maps.
• Adventure may not always fill our lungs with wonder, but it surely inflates our hearts with stories.
• Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it, just like deciding between a carrot or a cookie while on a diet!
• Adventure awaits not in the distance, but in the depth of each step we take.
• Adventure may not always be about seeking new places, but rather about seeing with new eyes.