518 Quotes by John Muir

God cannot save them from fools.

Our lives are rounded with a sleep.

...therefore all childish fear must be put away.

It may not be easy, life isn't easy, but dreams keep you alive.

Books are but steeping stones to show you where other minds have been.

If I should be fated to walk no more with Nature, be compelled to leave all I most devoutly love in the wilderness, return to civilization and be twisted into the characterless cable of society, then these sweet, free, cumberless rovings will be as chinks and slits on life's horizon, through which I may obtain glimpses of the treasures that lie in God's wilds beyond my reach.

Any fool can destroy trees, they cannot run away.

So abundant and novel are the objects of interest in a pure wilderness that unless you are pursuing special studies it matters little where you go, or how often to the same place. Wherever you chance to be always seems at the moment of all places the best; and you feel that there can be no happiness in this world or in any other for those who may not be happy there.

The most distinctive, and perhaps the most impressive, characteristic of American scenery is its wilderness.