When I discovered a new plant, I sat down beside it for a minute or a day, to make its acquaintance and hear what it had to tell... I asked the boulders I met, whence they came and whither they were going. John Muir More Quotes by John Muir More Quotes From John Muir Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn. John Muir sunshinenaturepeace Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity. John Muir tiredhometravel 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. John Muir natureseatree Of all the paths you take in life, John Muir dirthikingnature The sun shines not on us but in us. The rivers flow not past, but through us. Thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing. The trees wave and the flowers bloom in our bodies as well as our souls, and every bird song, wind song, and tremendous storm song of the rocks in the heart of the mountains is our song, our very own, and sings our love. John Muir flowerheartsong Hiking - I don't like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains - not hike! Do you know the origin of that word 'saunter?' It's a beautiful word. Away back in the Middle Ages people used to go on pilgrimages to the Holy Land, and when people in the villages through which they passed asked where they were going, they would reply, "A la sainte terre,' 'To the Holy Land.' And so they became known as sainte-terre-ers or saunterers. Now these mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not 'hike' through them." John Muir hikinglandbeautiful In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. John Muir gardennatureadventure 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. John Muir strengthbeautylife I’d rather be in the mountains thinking of God, than in church thinking about the mountains. John Muir mountainchurchthinking Wilderness is a necessity... there must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls. John Muir wildernesshumanssoul To sit in solitude, to think in solitude with only the music of the stream and the cedar to break the flow of silence, there lies the value of wilderness. John Muir silencelyingthinking As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I'll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can". John Muir gardennatureheart Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life. John Muir doorslifescience 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. John Muir i-hate-younatureheart All the wild world is beautiful, and it matters but little where we go, to highlands or lowlands, woods or plains, on the sea or land or down among the crystals of waves or high in a balloon in the sky; through all the climates, hot or cold, storms and calms, everywhere and always we are in God's eternal beauty and love. So universally true is this, the spot where we chance to be always seems the best. John Muir landseabeautiful When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty. John Muir starsnaturebeauty The mountains are calling and I must go. John Muir climbinghikingnature The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. John Muir gardennatureadventure Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. John Muir natureinspirationallife Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. John Muir wildernesswoodsgreen
