518 Quotes by John Muir

I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness.

Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.

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?

As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I’ll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I’ll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can.

The last days of this glacial winter are not yet past; we live in ‘creation’s dawn.’ The morning stars still sing together, and the world, though made, is still being made and becoming more beautiful every day.

Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.

When I was a child in Scotland, I was fond of everything that was wild, and all my life I’ve been growing fonder and fonder of wild places and wild creatures. Fortunately, around my native town of Dunbar, by the stormy North Sea, there was no lack of wildness...

Wherever there were glaciers, the world was in a constant state of creation.

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.