518 Quotes by John Muir

I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.

Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.

When a man plants a tree, he plants himself.

Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.

Yosemite Park is a place of rest, a refuge from the roar and dust and weary, nervous, wasting work of the lowlands, in which one gains the advantages of both solitude and society...

The moon is looking down into the canyon, and how marvelously the great rocks kindle to her light! Every dome, and brow, and swelling boss touched by her white rays, glows as if lighted with snow.

Most people are on the world, not in it-- having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them-- undiffused seporate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but seporate.

Listen to them! How wholly infused with God is this one big word of love that we call the world!

Hiking. I don't like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains...the se mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not 'hike' through them.