518 Quotes by John Muir

Government protection should be thrown around every wild grove and forest on the mountains, as it is around every private orchard, and the trees in public parks. To say nothing of their value as fountains of timber, they are worth infinitely more than all the gardens and parks of towns.

Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts . . .

Of all the fire mountains which like beacons, once blazed along the Pacific Coast, Mount Rainier is the noblest.

I always befriended animals and have said many a good word for them. Even to the least-loved mosquitoes I gave many a meal, and told them to go in peace.

The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thoughts and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains - mountain dwellers who have grown strong there with the forest trees in Nature's workshops.

Every good thing great and small needs defense

Nature in her green, tranquil woods heals and soothes all afflictions.

One day's exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.

So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.