518 Quotes by John Muir

What is worthwhile in life? I think it is worth living and dreaming. If you don’t you may be dead anyhow – inside.

It is a vast wilderness of rocks in a sea of light, colored and glowing like oak and maple in autumn, when the sun gold is richest.

Fortunately wrong cannot last. Soon or late it must fall back home to Hades, while some compensating good must surely follow.

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

All wilderness seems to be full of tricks and plans to drive and draw us up into God’s light.

In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.

Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.

This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!

But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.