518 Quotes by John Muir

I will follow my instincts, and be myself for good or ill.

I am often asked if I am not lonely on my solitary excursions. It seems so self-evident that one cannot be lonesome where everything is wild and beautiful and busy and steeped with God that the question is hard to answer.

Quench love, and what is left of a man's life but the folding of a few jointed bones and square inches of flesh? Who would call that life?

Who wouldn't be a mountaineer! Up here all the world's prizes seem nothing

Nature has always something rare to show us... and the danger to life and limb is hardly greater than one would experience crouching deprecatingly beneath a roof.

...every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.

I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.

It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.

…their eager, childlike attention was refreshing to see as compared with the decent, deathlike apathy of weary civilized people, in whom natural curiosity has been quenched in toil and care and poor, shallow comfort.