John Muir Quotes

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• I’d rather be in the mountains thinking of God, than in church thinking about the mountains.

  John Muir

  Thinking, Church, Mountain

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

  John Muir

  Nature, Hiking, Dirt

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

  John Muir

  Nature, Adventure, Garden

  John Muir (2015). “STEEP TRAILS: California - Utah - Nevada - Washington - Oregon - The Grand Canyon: Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Essays and Wilderness Studies from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf & Picturesque California”, p.67, e-artnow

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  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

  Peace, Nature, Sunshine

  Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

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• 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

  Song, Flower, Heart

  John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.92, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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  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

  Travel, Home, Tired

  "Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays".

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  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

  Life, Strength, Beauty

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.814, Library of America

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• 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

  Beautiful, Land, Hiking

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• When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

  John Muir

  Inspirational, Peace, Nature

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• Wilderness is a necessity... there must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls.

  John Muir

  Soul, Wilderness, Humans

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  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

  Nature, Sea, Tree

  John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). “John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings”, p.373, The Mountaineers Books

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

  John Muir

  Life, Science, Doors

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• 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

  Lying, Thinking, Silence

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• The mountains are calling and I must go.

  John Muir

  Nature, Climbing, Hiking

  John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). “John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings”, p.190, The Mountaineers Books

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

  John Muir

  Nature, Adventure, Dark

  John Muir (2013). “John Muir's Last Journey: South To The Amazon And East To Africa: Unpublished Journals And Selected Correspondence”, p.50, Island Press

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• There are no accidents in Nature. Every motion of the constantly shifting bodies in the world is timed to the occasion for some definite, fore-ordered end. The flowers blossom in obedience to the same law that marks the course of constellations, and the song of a bird is the echo of a universal symphony. Nature is one, and to me the greatest delight of observation and study is to discover new unities in this all-embracing and eternal harmony.

  John Muir

  Song, Flower, Echoes

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• 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

  Nature, Heart, I Hate You

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• Come to the woods, for here is rest.

  John Muir

  Woods, Wilderness

  John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.235, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• Look! Nature is overflowing with the grandeur of God!

  John Muir

  Nature, Vision, Looks

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• It may not be easy, life isn't easy, but dreams keep you alive.

  John Muir

  Dream, Adventure, Alive

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• The power of imagination makes us infinite.

  John Muir

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.321, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Nature, Flower, Adventure

  John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.427, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• Nature in her green, tranquil woods heals and soothes all afflictions.

  John Muir

  Affliction, Green, Woods

  John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.220, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• Going into the woods, is going home

  John Muir

  Home, Woods, Going Home

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• Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.

  John Muir

  Beautiful, Song, Acceptance

  John Muir (2015). “JOHN MUIR’S CALIFORNIA COLLECTION: My First Summer in the Sierra, Picturesque California, The Mountains of California, The Yosemite & Our National Parks (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Writings and Wilderness Essays”, p.606, e-artnow

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