518 Quotes by John Muir

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!

Lizards of every temper, style, and color dwell here, seemingly as happy and companionable as the birds and squirrels.

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

In the eternal youth of Nature, you may renew your own.

The finest of the glacier meadow gardens lie ...imbedded in the upper pine forests like lakes of light.

One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.

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

How lavish is Nature building, pulling down, creating, destroying, chasing every material particle from form to form, ever changing, ever beautiful.

C. albus...I think the very loveliest of all the lily family - a spotless soul, plant saint, that every one must love and so be made better. It puts the wildest mountaineer on his good behavior. With this plant the whole world would seem rich though non other existed.