518 Quotes by John Muir

I made these Sierra trips, carrying only a sackful of bread with a little tea and sugar, and was thus independent and free...

The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.

The care-laden commercial lives we lead close our eyes to the operations of God as a workman, though openly carried on that all who will look may see.

Surely all God’s people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly small mischievous microbes- all are warm with divine radium and must have lots of fun in them.

Memories may escape the action of the will, may sleep a long time, but when stirred by the right influence, though that influence be light as a shadow, they flash into full stature and life with everything in place.

Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God’s mountains.

All that is necessary to make any landscape visible and therefore impressive is to regard it from a new point of view or from an old one with our head upside down – then we behold a new heaven and earth and are born again as if we had gone on a pilgrimage to some far off holy land.

Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods.

But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.