John Muir’s Insightful Quotes on Nature

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

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. – John Muir

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. – John Muir

Going to the woods is going home. – John Muir

The mountains are calling and I must go. – John Muir

The sun shines not on us but in us. – John Muir

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. – John Muir

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

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. – John Muir

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds. – John Muir

The power of imagination makes us infinite. – John Muir

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. – John Muir

The world is big and I want to explore it all. – John Muir

Everyone needs beauty as well as bread. – John Muir

Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. – John Muir

Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. – John Muir

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

John Muir’s Insightful Quotes on Nature part 2

There is a love of wild nature in everybody. – John Muir

Only by going alone in silence can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. – John Muir

The Earth has music for those who listen. – John Muir

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. – John Muir

When we tug at a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world. – John Muir

In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand, there is the story of the Earth. – 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

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

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease. – John Muir

The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart of the roughest solitudes with smooth reserve of strength. – John Muir

In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world – the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. – John Muir

I never saw a discontented tree. – John Muir

The sunsets of a thousand worlds have been seen and loved by me. – John Muir

Man, a mere atom in the chaos, makes himself the central point to which all terrestrial lines converge as if his earth were the hub in the wheel of the universe. But to the eye of genius, and to every expanded mind, he is infinitely less than nothing. – John Muir

Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another. – John Muir

To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world. – John Muir

Wilderness is a necessity… There must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls. – John Muir

I never saw a discontented sunrise. – John Muir

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

Nature is always lovely, invincible, glad, whatever is done and suffered by her creatures. – John Muir

The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of autumn. – John Muir

In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world — the great fresh, unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. – John Muir

The power of wilderness to change lives is still a great gift. – John Muir

There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature – the assurance that dawn comes after night, rain after drought, and spring after winter. – John Muir

To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world. – John Muir

There is a love of wild Nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties. – John Muir

Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes it water and nobody knows what that is. – John Muir

Our National Parks are their beautiful tombs. – John Muir