518 Quotes by John Muir

One learns that the world, though made, is yet being made. That this is still the morning of creation. That mountains, long conceived, are now being born, brought to light by the glaciers, channels traced for coming rivers, basins hollowed for lakes.

Keep close to nature's heart and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

Keep close to Nature’s heart, yourself; and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul.

Keep close to nature's heart, and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand straining, leveling tempests and floods; But he cannot save them from fools.

In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.

The sun shines not on us but in us. The Rivers flow not past, but through us.