518 Quotes by John Muir

You may be a little cold some nights on mountain tops above the timber-line, but you will see the stars, and by and by you can sleep enough in your town bed. or at least in your grave. Keep awake while you may in mountain mansions so rare.

Nevertheless, again and again, in season and out of season, the question comes up, "What are rattlesnakes good for?" As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God's ways....Anyhow, they are all, head and tail, good for themselves, and we need not begrudge them their share of life.-from the essay Yellowstone Park

Nevertheless, again and again, in season and our of season, the question comes up, "What are rattlesnakes good for?" As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were Gods' ways.... Anyhow, they are all, head and tail, good for themselves, and we need not begrudge them their share of life.

Come to the woods, for here is rest.

Nothing dollarable is safe.

You are yourself a Sequoia. Stop and get acquainted with your brethren... It will do you good.

John Muir, Earth — planet, Universe[Muir's home address, as inscribed on the inside front cover of his first field journal]

Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.