50 John Muir Quotes That Will Motivate You

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50 Best John Muir Quotes

1. “Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way.” – John Muir

2. “Nothing truly wild is unclean.” – John Muir

3. “I care to live only to entice people to look at nature’s loveliness.” – John Muir

4. “And into the woods I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.” – John Muir

5. “I never saw a discontented tree.” – John Muir

6. “Wherever there were glaciers, the world was in a constant state of creation.” – John Muir

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7. “One of the best ways to see tree flowers is to climb one of the tallest trees and to get into close, tingling touch with them, and then look broad.” – John Muir

8. “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

9. “Rivers flow not past, but through us; tingling, vibrating, exciting every cell and fiber in our bodies, making them sing and glide.” – John Muir

10. “Not blind opposition to progress, but opposition to blind progress.” – John Muir

11. “Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.” – John Muir

12. “God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.” – John Muir

13. “Look up and down and round about you!” – John Muir

14. “Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts.” – John Muir

15. “Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.” – John Muir

16. “Take a course in good water and air, and in the eternal youth of nature you may renew your own.” – John Muir

17. “Nothing dollarable is safe.” – John Muir

18. “When we try to pick out anything by itself we find that it is bound fast by a thousand invisible cords that cannot be broken, to everything in the universe.” – John Muir

19. “Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.” – John Muir

20. “Doubly happy, however, is the man to whom lofty mountain tops are within reach.” – John Muir

21. “Allow nature’s peace to flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.” – John Muir

22. “Feast on sunlight!” – John Muir

23. “Let go of your cares like autumn leaves.” – John Muir

24. “Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life.” – John Muir

25. “Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.” – John Muir

26. “Wherever we go in the mountains, we find more than we seek.” – John Muir

27. “Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.” – John Muir

28. “The world is big and I want to get a good look at it before it gets dark.” – John Muir

29. “The clearest way into the universe is through a forest of wilderness.” – John Muir

30. “I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides for the sun love made me strong.” – John Muir

31. “The mountains are calling, and I must go.” – John Muir

32. “One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.” – John Muir

33. “The power of imagination makes us infinite.” – John Muir

34. “I am well again. I came to life in the cool winds and crystal waters of the mountains.” – John Muir

35. “How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!” – John Muir

36. “When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” – John Muir

37. “Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.” – John Muir

38. “Keep close to nature’s heart and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.” – John Muir

39. “Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them may we be filled with the holy ghost.” – John Muir

40. “Rock and waters, etc are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain soul. All are expressions of one love.” – John Muir

41. “The morning stars still sing together, and the world, not yet half made, becomes more beautiful every day.” – John Muir

42. “None of nature’s landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild.” – John Muir

43. “One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.” – John Muir

44. “Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods.” – John Muir

45. “I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.” – John Muir

46. “We all travel the milky way together, trees and men.” – John Muir

47. “Going to the mountains is going home.” – John Muir

48. “Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here the world’s prizes seem nothing.” – John Muir

49. “In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.” – John Muir

50. “The sun shines not on us, but in us.” – John Muir

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