Quotes by John Muir

John Muir

…every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.

Building Up

Individuality

Sight

…full of God’s thoughts, a place of peace and safety amid the most exalted grandeur and enthusiastic action, a new song, a place of beginnings abounding in first lessons of life, mountain building, eternal, invincible, unbreakable order; with sermons in stone, storms, trees, flowers, and animals brimful with humanity.

Flower

Life Lesson

Song

…Good luck and Good work for the happy mountain raindrops, each one of them a high waterfall in itself, descending from the cliffs and hollows of the clouds to the cliffs and hollows of the rocks, out of the sky-thunder into the thunder of the falling rivers.

Fall

Good Luck

Sky

…their eager, childlike attention was refreshing to see as compared with the decent, deathlike apathy of weary civilized people, in whom natural curiosity has been quenched in toil and care and poor, shallow comfort.

Comfort

Curiosity

People

…therefore all childish fear must be put away.

[Concerning the Water Ouzel, now called American Dipper:] In a general way his music is that of the streams refined and spiritualized. The deep booming notes of the falls are in it, the trills of rapids, the gurgling of margin eddies, the low whispering of level reaches, and the sweet tinkle of separate drops oozing from the ends of mosses and falling into tranquil pools.

Fall

Sweet

Water

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.

Song

Tragedy

Tree

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. Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings, while incense is ever flowing from the balsam bells and leaves. No wonder the hills and groves were God’s first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself.

Cutting

Life

Song

A lifetime is so little a time that we die before we get ready to live. I should like to study at a college, but then I have to say to myself: “You will die before you can do anything else”.

College

Littles

Study

A little pure wildness is the one great present want, both of men and sheep.

Men

Sheep

Want

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Air

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Alive

America

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Animal

Atoms

Attention

Attitude

Autumn

Avalanches

Battle

Beautiful

Beauty

Bigs

Bird

Blessed

Blessing

Blind

Blood

Blue

Body

Book

Boss

Boulders

Bread

Breathing

Brightness

Brother

Buddhist

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Building Walls

Butterfly

Calling

Calm Mind

Care

Catholic

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Cheer

Children

Chinks

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Quotes by John Muir

John Muir

…every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.

…Good luck and Good work for the happy mountain raindrops, each one of them a high waterfall in itself, descending from the cliffs and hollows of the clouds to the cliffs and hollows of the rocks, out of the sky-thunder into the thunder of the falling rivers.

…their eager, childlike attention was refreshing to see as compared with the decent, deathlike apathy of weary civilized people, in whom natural curiosity has been quenched in toil and care and poor, shallow comfort.

…therefore all childish fear must be put away.

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.

A lifetime is so little a time that we die before we get ready to live. I should like to study at a college, but then I have to say to myself: “You will die before you can do anything else”.

A little pure wildness is the one great present want, both of men and sheep.

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