John Muir

"The world is big, and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark."

- John Muir

"Most people are on the world, not in it – having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them."

- John Muir

"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe."

- John Muir

"And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul."

- John Muir

"You are not in the mountains. The mountains are in you."

- John Muir

"Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way."

- John Muir

"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings."

- John Muir

"We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us."

- John Muir

"Of all the fire mountains which like beacons, once blazed along the Pacific Coast, Mount Rainier is the noblest."

- John Muir

""Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.""

- John Muir

"“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

"Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it!"

- John Muir

"In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks."

- John Muir

"Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean."

- John Muir

"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

"Keep close to Nature’s heart … and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain, or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean."

- John Muir

"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 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

"In February, let nature be your guide and find solace in its beauty and rhythm."

- John Muir

""And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.""

- John Muir

""In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.""

- John Muir

""Keep close to nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods.""

- John Muir

""Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.""

- John Muir

""The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness.""

- John Muir

""The mountains are calling, and I must go.""

- John Muir

"The sun shines not on us but in us."

- John Muir

"And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and my soul."

- John Muir

"Into the forest I go to lose my mind and find my soul."

- John Muir

"You are not in the mountains; the mountains are in you."

- John Muir

"The mountains are calling, and I must go."

- John Muir

"I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found."

- John Muir

"I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in."

- John Muir

"Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it"

- John Muir

"Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it."

- John Muir

"This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere..."

- John Muir

"Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life."

- John Muir

"Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm."

- John Muir

"The making of the far-famed New York Central Park was opposed by even good men, with misguided pluck, perseverance, and ingenuity, but straight right won its way, and now that park is appreciated. So we confidently believe it will be with our great national parks and forest reservations."

- John Muir

"Were the importance of our forests at all understood by the people in general, even from an economic standpoint their preservation would call forth the most watchful attention of the Government."

- John Muir

"I wonder if leaves feel lonely when they see their neighbors falling?"

- John Muir

"This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls."

- John Muir

"The power of imagination makes us infinite."

- John Muir

"The Power of Imagination makes us Infinite"

- 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

"Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods."

- John Muir

"How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!"

- John Muir

"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

"How glorious a greeting the Sun gives the mountains!"

- John Muir

"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks."

- John Muir

"The mountains are calling and I must go."

- John Muir

"The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness."

- John Muir

"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 off like autumn leaves."

- John Muir

"Between every two pines there is a doorway to a new world."

- John Muir

"Going to the mountains is like going home."

- John Muir

"Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt."

- John Muir

"How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains."

- John Muir

"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

"All the world lies warm in one heart, yet the Sierra seems to get more light than other mountains. The weather is mostly sunshine embellished with magnificent storms, and nearly everything shines from base to summit - the rocks, streams, lakes, glaciers, irised falls, and the forests of silver fir and silver pine."

- John Muir

"When we tug at a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world."

- John Muir

"God never made an ugly landscape. All that the sun shines on is beautiful, so long as it is wild."

- John Muir

"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks"

- 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

"I wonder if leaves feel lonely when they see their neighbors falling."

- John Muir

"Surely all God’s people…like to play."

- John Muir