John Muir Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old John Muir quotes, John Muir sayings, and John Muir proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

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
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. John Muir
The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness. John Muir
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. John Muir
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. John Muir
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. John Muir
Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you. John Muir
And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul. John Muir
Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill. John Muir
The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness. John Muir
One can make a day of any size. John Muir
Going to the mountains is going home. John Muir
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. John Muir
Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far! John Muir
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
Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold. John Muir
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. John Muir
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. John Muir
By forces seemingly antagonistic and destructive Nature accomplishes her beneficent designs now a flood of fire, now a flood of ice, now a flood of water; and again in the fullness of time an outburst of organic life. John Muir
Sheep, like people, are ungovernable when hungry. John Muir
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. John Muir
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. John Muir
But in every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks. John Muir
Sheep, like people, are ungovernable when hungry. John Muir
To myself, mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery; in them, and in the forms of inferior landscape that lead to them, my affections are wholly bound up. John Muir
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. John Muir
Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt. John Muir
The practical importance of the preservation of our forests is augmented by their relations to climate, soil and streams. John Muir
The tide of visitors will float slowly about the bottom of the valley as harmless scum collecting in hotel and saloon eddies, leaving the rocks and falls eloquent as ever. John Muir
Nature as a poet, an enthusiastic workingman, becomes more and more visible the farther and higher we go; for the mountains are fountains – beginning places, however related to sources beyond mortal ken. John Muir