Most people are on the world, not in it. John Muir More Quotes by John Muir More Quotes From John Muir God never made an ugly landscape. All that sun shines on is beautiful, so long as it is wild. John Muir shine-onbeautifullong 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 natureadventuremen 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 naturefloweradventure The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark. John Muir naturedarkadventure When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. John Muir naturewisdommotivational 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. John Muir beautifullifedeath Going into the woods, is going home John Muir going-homewoodshome The power of imagination makes us infinite. John Muir motivationalinspirationallife Wander a whole summer if you can. Time will not be taken from the sum of life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal. John Muir wandertakensummer This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls. John Muir naturetimelife Wilderness is not only a haven for native plants and animals but it is also a refuge from society. Its a place to go to hear the wind and little else, see the stars and the galaxies, smell the pine trees, feel the cold water, touch the sky and the ground at the same time, listen to coyotes, eat the fresh snow, walk across the desert sands, and realize why its good to go outside of the city and the suburbs. Fortunately, there is wilderness just outside the limits of the cities and the suburbs in most of the United States, especially in the West. John Muir starscitiesanimal The sun shines not on us but in us. John Muir emotionalstrengthinspirational These beautiful days ... do not exist as mere pictures - maps hung upon the walls of memory to brighten at times when touched by association or will ... They saturate themselves into every part of the body and live always. John Muir wallbeautifulmemories Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another. John Muir acceptancesongbeautiful What wonders lie in every mountain day! John Muir mountainwonderlying The battle for conservation will go on endlessly. It is part of the universal battle between right and wrong. John Muir building-wallsbattlegoes-on In the eternal youth of Nature, you may renew your own. John Muir environmentalnaturemay The United States government has always been proud of the welcome it has extended to good men of every nation, seeking freedom and homes and bread. John Muir good-manhomemen Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Here grow the wallflower and the violet. The squirrel will come and sit upon your knee, the logcock will wake you in the morning. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill. Of all the upness accessible to mortals, there is no upness comparable to the mountains. John Muir naturesleepmorning Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. John Muir autumnnaturewisdom
