John Muir Quotes

"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul."
-John Muir in Needs quotes.

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

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

"The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual."
-John Muir in Civilization quotes.

"Most people are on the world, not in it - having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them - undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate."
-John Muir in World quotes.

"The power of imagination makes us infinite."
-John Muir

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