John Muir Quotes

“No right way is easy in this rough world. We must risk our lives to save them.”

― John Muir, Stickeen

topic:life nature risk

“I never have held death in contempt, though in the course of my explorations I have oftentimes felt that to meet one's fate on a noble mountain, or in the heart of a glacier, would be blessed as compared with death from disease, or from some...”

― John Muir, Stickeen

topic:death

“And in the development of these Nature chose for a tool not the earthquake or lightning to rend and split asunder, not the stormy torrent or eroding rain, but the tender snow-flowers noiselessly falling through unnumbered centuries, the offspring...”

― John Muir, The Mountains of California

topic:time nature

“With inexpressible delight you wade out into the grassy sun-lake, feeling yourself contained in one of Nature's most sacred chambers, withdrawn from the sterner influences of the mountains, secure from all intrusion, secure from yourself, free in...”

― John Muir, The Mountains of California

topic:freedom beauty nature

“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 alike.”

― John Muir, The Yosemite

topic:beauty nature

“In so wild and so beautiful a region was spent my first day, every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.”

― John Muir, The Mountains of California

topic:beauty

“But there is no estimating the wit and wisdom concealed and latent in our lower fellow mortals until made manifest by profound experiences; for it is through suffering that dogs as well as saints are developed and made perfect.”

― John Muir, Stickeen

topic:wisdom pain

“How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!”

― John Muir, The Mountains of California

topic:nature sun

“Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.”

― John Muir, The Mountains of California

topic:nature

“But Nature, it seems, was at the bottom of the affair, and she gains her ends with dogs as well as with men, making us do as she likes, shoving and pulling us along her ways, however rough, all but killing us at times in getting her lessons...”

― John Muir, Stickeen

topic:nature humility

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