No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself. John Muir More Quotes by John Muir More Quotes From John Muir No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering matter into stars, or planning the movements of water, or gardening - still all is Beauty! John Muir starsperfectwater Look up and down and round about you.! John Muir look-updown-andlooks When you tug at a single thing in the universe, you'll find its attached to everything else. John Muir universe Wander here a whole summer, if you can ... Thousands of wild blessings will search you and soak you as if you were a sponge, and the big days will go by uncounted John Muir spongesblessingsummer Wildness was ever sounding in our ears, and Nature saw to it that besides school lessons some of her own lessons should be learned, perhaps with a view to the time when we should be called to wander in wildness to our heart’s content. John Muir viewsheartschool To ask me whether I could endure to live without friends is absurd. It is easy enough to live out of material sight of friends, but to live without human love is impossible. John Muir sightlove-isfriendship How infinitely superior to our physical senses are those of the mind! John Muir superiorssensesmind How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation! John Muir selfishconceitedrights When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. One fancies a heart like our own must be beating in every crystal and cell, and we feel like stopping to speak to the plants and animals as friendly fellow-mountaineers. Nature as a poet, an enthusiastic workingman, becomes more and more visible the farther and higher we go. John Muir cellsheartanimal Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind. John Muir glaciersgrindwriting I will follow my instincts, be myself for good or ill, and see what will be the upshot. John Muir free-spiritinstinctill Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. John Muir yellowstonemountainhiking By forces seemingly antagonistic and destructive Nature accomplishes her beneficent designs - now a flood of fire, now a flood of ice, now a flood of water; and again in the fullness of time an outburst of organic life. John Muir icefirewater I have a low opinion of books: they are piles of stones set up to show coming travelers where other minds have been, or at best signal smokes to call attention. John Muir mindattentionbook In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts. John Muir dryfireheart Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings. John Muir music-and-lifecellstree 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 lightreligiousblessed I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong. John Muir strongsunhome Who wouldn't be a mountaineer! Up here all the world's prizes seem nothing John Muir wildernessadventureworld Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God's mountains. John Muir mountainjordanheaven
