John MuirYet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.371HumanityThoughtTime
John MuirOne day's exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books. ✨ John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir, p.9… ▶372Reading
John MuirGoing to the mountains is going home. ✨ John Muir (1997). Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Sti… ▶361Hope
John MuirA few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear th… ▶372Politics
John MuirWhen 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… ▶372Reflection
John MuirAnyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get - -people,storms, guardian angels, or sheep. ✨ John Muir (2001). Meditations of John Muir: Nature's Temp… ▶373Humanity
John MuirOne learns that the world, though made, is yet being made; that this is still the morning of creation; that mountains long conceived are now being born, channels traced for coming… ▶373Death
John MuirIt may not be easy, life isn't easy, but dreams keep you alive.374Life
John Muir…their eager, childlike attention was refreshing to see as compared with the decent, deathlike apathy of weary civilized people, in whom natural curiosity has been quenched in toi… ▶375DeathHumanityReading
John MuirIt is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest. ✨ John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). … ▶354DeathHumanity
John MuirIn drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts. ✨ John Muir (2017). Delphi Complete Works of John Muir (Illustrated), p.2068,… ▶321LoveTruth
John MuirFew places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call fo… ▶343Death
John MuirBetween every two pines is a doorway to a new world.311Sadness
John MuirOne should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else. ✨ John Muir (2015). JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Let… ▶366Death
John MuirThe 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… ▶311DeathLoveTime
John MuirA few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear th… ▶356Life
John MuirMost people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant. ✨ John Muir (2012). Travels in Alaska, p.… ▶367HumanityPoliticsReading
John MuirHow glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! ✨ John Muir (1997). Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of … ▶324Politics
John MuirKeep 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.291Love
John MuirThousands 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. ✨ Nature Writings:… ▶292Humanity
John MuirWhen one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.303Reflection
John MuirLong, 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 … ▶303Reading
John MuirWhen we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. ✨ John Muir (2011). My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition, p.… ▶281Truth
John MuirWalk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. ✨ John Muir (2015). JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmen… ▶337Death
John MuirI am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains … ▶304Hope
John MuirRaindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky. ✨ John Muir (2015). JOHN MUIR… ▶293Life
John MuirHandle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.271Reading
John MuirThe gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual. ✨ Letter to J.B. McChesney, September 19, 1871.348Humanity
John MuirClimb the mountains and get their good tidings. ✨ Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898271Life
John MuirThis grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn an… ▶305Humanity
