“Most people are on the world, not in it.”
Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir
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Famous John Muir Quotes
Source: A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf (With Original Drawings & Photographs): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches & Wilderness Studies
“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.”
Source: The Yosemite
“As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.”
Source: To Yosemite and Beyond: Writings from the Years 1863-1875
“The grand show is eternal It is always sunrise somewhere”
Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir
Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays
“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.”
Source: STEEP TRAILS: California - Utah - Nevada - Washington - Oregon - The Grand Canyon: Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Essays and Wilderness Studies from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf & Picturesque California
“The mountains are calling and I must go.”
Source: John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings
“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.”
Source: My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition
“How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!”
Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays
“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir
“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”
Source: John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir
Source: A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf (With Original Drawings & Photographs): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches & Wilderness Studies
Source: To Yosemite and Beyond: Writings from the Years 1863-1875