Quotes By 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.
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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.
God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.
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