No right way is easy in this rough world. We must risk our lives to save them. John Muir More Quotes by John Muir More Quotes From John Muir The redwood is one of the few conifers that sprout from the stump and roots, and it declares itself willing to begin immediately to repair the damage of the lumberman and also that of the forest-burner. John Muir damage roots forests In the woods is perpetual youth. John Muir woods health nature As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but Nature's sources never fail. Like a generous host, she offers her brimming cups in endless variety, served in a grand hall, the sky its ceiling, the mountains its walls, decorated with glorious paintings and enlivened with bands of music ever playing. John Muir mountain wall sky Large flocks of butterflies, all kinds of happy insects, seem to be in a perfect fever of joy and sportive gladness. John Muir butterfly perfect joy ...Good luck and Good work for the happy mountain raindrops, each one of them a high waterfall in itself, descending from the cliffs and hollows of the clouds to the cliffs and hollows of the rocks, out of the sky-thunder into the thunder of the falling rivers. John Muir good-luck sky fall I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence... to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself. John Muir evidence made animal All wilderness seems to be full of tricks and plans to drive and draw us up into God's light. John Muir wilderness light spiritual I don't agree with you in saying that in all human minds there is poetry. Man as he came from the hand of his Maker was poetic in both mind and body, but the gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual. John Muir spiritual men hands A lifetime is so little a time that we die before we get ready to live. I should like to study at a college, but then I have to say to myself: "You will die before you can do anything else". John Muir study college littles Books are but stepping stones to show you where other minds have been. John Muir stones mind book ...every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality. John Muir building-up individuality sight But to gain a perfect view, one must go yet further, over a curving brow to a slight shelf on the extreme brink. John Muir gains views perfect Ink cannot tell the glow that lights me at this moment in turning to the mountains. I feel strong [enough] to leap Yosemite walls at a bound. John Muir wall light strong It is a vast wilderness of rocks in a sea of light, colored and glowing like oak and maple in autumn, when the sun gold is richest John Muir autumn rocks light Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally. John Muir going-home woods home The axe and saw are insanely busy, chips are flying thick as snowflakes, and every summer thousands of acres of priceless forests, with their underbrush, soil, springs, climate, scenery, and religion, are vanishing away in clouds of smoke, while, except in the national parks, not one forest guard is employed. John Muir summer clouds spring Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest! John Muir mountain-peaks mountain-ranges adventure If I should be fated to walk no more with Nature, be compelled to leave all I most devoutly love in the wilderness, return to civilization and be twisted into the characterless cable of society, then these sweet, free, cumberless rovings will be as chinks and slits on life's horizon, through which I may obtain glimpses of the treasures that lie in God's wilds beyond my reach. John Muir sweet civilization lying What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm! John Muir smell voice sweet The most distinctive, and perhaps the most impressive, characteristic of American scenery is its wilderness. John Muir wilderness impressive characteristics
