When we try to pick out anything by itself we find it hitched to everything else in the universe ... The whole wilderness is unity and interrelation, is alive and familiar, full of humanity. The very stones seem talkative, sympathetic, brotherly. 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 stars perfect water Look up and down and round about you.! John Muir look-up down-and looks 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 sponges blessing summer 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 views heart school 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 sight love-is friendship How infinitely superior to our physical senses are those of the mind! John Muir superiors senses mind How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation! John Muir selfish conceited rights 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 cells heart animal Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind. John Muir glaciers grind writing I will follow my instincts, be myself for good or ill, and see what will be the upshot. John Muir free-spirit instinct ill Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. John Muir yellowstone mountain hiking 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 ice fire water 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 mind attention book In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts. John Muir dry fire heart Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings. John Muir music-and-life cells tree 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 light religious blessed I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong. John Muir strong sun home Who wouldn't be a mountaineer! Up here all the world's prizes seem nothing John Muir wilderness adventure world 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 mountain jordan heaven
