518 Quotes by John Muir

Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.

We are in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us....How glorious a conversion, so complete and wholesome it is, scarce memory enough of old bondage days left as a standpoint to view it from! In this newness of life we seem to have been so always

The battle we have fought, and are still fighting for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong, and we cannot expect to see the end of it ... So we must count on watching and striving for these trees, and should always be glad to find anything so surely good and noble to strive for.

The power of imagination is infinite.

Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get---people,storms, guardian angels, or sheep....

Wildness was ever sounding in our ears, and Nature saw to it that besides school lessons some of her own lessons should be learned, perhaps with a view to the time when we should be called to wander in wildness to our heart’s content.

Certainly this Joaquin Canyon is the most remarkable in many ways of all I have entered.

I have enjoyed the trees & scenery of KY exceedingly. How shall I ever tell of the miles & miles of beauty that have been flowing into me in such measure?

In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.