518 Quotes by John Muir

grandest special temple of nature I was ever permitted to enter.

See how God writes history. No technical knowledge is required; only a calm day and a calm mind.

One 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 rivers, basins hollowed for lakes...

The battle we have fought, and are still fighting, for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong.

Who publishes the sheet-music of the winds or the music of water written in river-lines?

John Muir, Earth-planet, Universe.

We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.

Every atom in creation may be said to be acquainted with and married to every other, but with universal union there is a division sufficient in degree for the purposes of the most intense individuality.

Imagination is usually regarded as a synonym for the unreal. Yet is true imagination healthful and real, no more likely to mislead than the coarse senses. Indeed, the power of imagination makes us infinite.