...therefore all childish fear must be put away. John Muir More Quotes by John Muir More Quotes From John Muir Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal. John Muir heal sorrow earth The groves and thickets of smaller trees are full of blooming evergreen vines. These vines are not arranged in separate groups, or in delicate wreaths, but in bossy walls and heavy, mound-like heaps and banks. Am made to feel that I am now in a strange land. I know hardly any of the plants, but few of the birds, and I am unable to see the country for the solemn, dark, mysterious cypress woods which cover everything. John Muir wall dark country I should study Nature's laws in all their crossings and unions; I should follow magnetic streams to their source and follow the shores of our magnetic oceans. I should go among the rays of the aurora, and follow them to their beginnings, and study their dealings and communications with other powers and expressions of matter. John Muir communication nature travel If the Creator were to bestow a new set of senses upon us, or slightly remodel the present ones, leaving all the rest of nature unchanged, we should never doubt we were in another world, and so in strict reality we should be, just as if all the world besides our senses were changed. John Muir leaving nature reality 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 cutting church tree Every good thing great and small needs defense John Muir defense good-things needs To myself, mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery; in them, and in the forms of inferior landscape that lead to them, my affections are wholly bound up. John Muir landscape mountain nature We live with our heels as well as head and most of our pleasure comes in that way. John Muir reptiles pleasure way So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything. John Muir tides may men Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant. John Muir ignorant adventure people Fresh beauty opens one's eyes wherever it is really seen, but the very abundance and completeness of the common beauty that besets our steps prevents its being absorbed and appreciated. It is a good thing, therefore, to make short excursions now and then to the bottom of the sea among dulse and coral, or up among the clouds on mountain-tops, or in balloons, or even to creep like worms into dark holes and caverns underground, not only to learn something of what is going on in those out-of-the-way places, but to see better what the sun sees on our return to common every-day beauty. John Muir nature eye beauty We all flow from one fountain- Soul. All are expressions of one love. John Muir flow soul expression There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties John Muir nature mother adventure No Sierra landscape that I have seen holds anything truly dead or dull, or any trace of what in manufactories is called rubbish or waste; everything is perfectly clean and pure and full of divine lessons. John Muir rubbish lessons dull Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity. John Muir beautiful death children I am often asked if I am not lonely on my solitary excursions. It seems so self-evident that one cannot be lonesome where everything is wild and beautiful and busy and steeped with God that the question is hard to answer. John Muir lonely self beautiful Man and other civilized animals are the only creatures that ever become dirty. John Muir animal men dirty The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right. John Muir light ignorance heart Do behold the king in his glory, King Sequoia. Behold! Behold! seems all I can say.... Well may I fast, not from bread but from business, bookmaking, duty doing & other trifles.... I’m in the woods woods woods, & they are in mee-ee-ee.... I wish I were wilder & so bless Sequoia I will be. John Muir kings wish may Gigantic second and third growth trees are found in the redwoods, forming magnificent temple-like circles around charred ruins more than a thousand years old. John Muir circles tree years
