518 Quotes by John Muir

The clearest way to the Universe is through a forest wilderness

The tide of visitors will float slowly about the bottom of the valley as harmless scum collecting in hotel and saloon eddies, leaving the rocks and falls eloquent as ever.

Galen Clark was the best mountaineer I ever met, and one of the kindest and most amiable of all my mountain friends.

Tug on anything at all and you'll find it connected to everything else in the universe.

Bread without butter or coffee without milk is an awful calamity, as if everything before being put in our mouth must first be held under a cow.

How infinitely superior to our physical senses are those of the mind!

To some, beauty seems but an accident of creation: to Muir it was the very smile of God.

Nature as a poet, an enthusiastic workingman, becomes more and more visible the farther and higher we go; for the mountains are fountains – beginning places, however related to sources beyond mortal ken.

Brought into right relationships with the wilderness, man would see that his appropriation of Earth's resourcesbeyond his personal needs would only bring imbalance and begat ultimate loss and poverty by all.