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.

"Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays". How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. The rivers flow not past, but through us. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.721, Library of America, John Muir (1997). “My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition”, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). I am degenerating into a machine for making money. A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. 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.”, “Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.”, “There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties”, “Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.”, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir. These temple destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism, seem to have a perfect contempt for Nature, and, instead of lifting their eyes to the God of the mountains, lift them to the Almighty Dollar. ” “Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. “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, John Muir (1997). John Muir was a Scottish-American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States. Thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news”, “The world, we are told, was made especially for man — a presumption not supported by all the facts.”, “And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul”, “As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. born on April 21, 1838, John Muir Quotes on Wilderness and the People In It “Most people are on the world, not in it. “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.351, Library of America, John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. But he … Life seems neither long nor short, and we take no more heed to save time or make haste than do the trees and stars. “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.312, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far! Wash your spirit clean. His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature, especially in the Sierra Nevada of California, have been read by millions. When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. Environmentalist Every day we present the best quotes! Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account.

They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action.” I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. 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.”, “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”, “The world's big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.”, “I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.”, “In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.”, “I am losing precious days. 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. 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. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.427, Univ of Wisconsin Press, John Muir (2011). Be the first to learn about new releases! “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.208, Univ of Wisconsin Press, John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). John Muir (2011). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.312, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.817, Library of America, John Muir (2015). 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!

His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature, especially in the Sierra Nevada of California, have been read by millions. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thoughts and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains - mountain dwellers who have grown strong there with the forest trees in Nature's workshops. I'll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can".”, “The power of imagination makes us infinite.”, “This grand show is eternal. Other such places include Muir Woods National Monument, Muir Beach, John Muir College, Mount Muir, Camp Muir and Muir Glacier. Don't forget to confirm subscription in your email. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.”, “Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.”, “Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.”, “Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.”, “We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.”, “Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where. American died on December 24, 1914, John Muir was a Scottish-American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States. This is true freedom, a good practical sort of immortality.”, “Everybody needs beauty...places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.”, “On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.