john-muir Quotes About may

“A man, in his books, may be said to walk the earth a long time after he is gone.”

Men May Long Said Book Earth Science Walks Gone Long Time

“Memories may escape the action of the will, may sleep a long time, but when stirred by the right influence, though that influence be light as a shadow, they flash into full stature and life with everything in place”

May Long Light Action Memories Sleep Influence Long Time Shadow Flash Stature

Book:John Muir: Nature Writings

Source: John Muir: Nature Writings

“Winds are advertisements of all they touch, however much or little we may be able to read them; telling their wanderings even by their scents alone.”

May Littles Able Wind Wander Scent Advertisements

Book:The Mountains of California (With Original Drawings & Photographs): Adventure Memoirs and Wilderness Study from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Picturesque California & Steep Trails

Source: The Mountains of California (With Original Drawings & Photographs): Adventure Memoirs and Wilderness Study from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Picturesque California & Steep Trails

“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike. This natural beauty-hunger is made manifest in the little window-sill gardens of the poor, though perhaps only a geranium slip in a broken cup, as well as in the carefully tended rose and lily gardens of the rich, the thousands of spacious city parks and botanical gardens, and in our magnificent National parks — the Yellowstone, Yosemite, Sequoia, etc. — Nature's sublime wonderlands, the admiration and joy of the world.”

Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays

“Do behold the king in his glory, King Sequoia. Behold! Behold! seems all I can say.... Well may I fast, not from bread but from business, bookmaking, duty doing & other trifles.... I’m in the woods woods woods, & they are in mee-ee-ee.... I wish I were wilder & so bless Sequoia I will be.”

Wells May I Can Seems Wish Duty Kings Glory Woods Bread Bless Trifles Wilder Redwoods

Author:John Muir

“In the eternal youth of Nature, you may renew your own.”

May Nature Youth Eternal Environmental Wilderness World Environment Environmental History Eternal Youth

Book:JOHN MUIR’S CALIFORNIA COLLECTION: My First Summer in the Sierra, Picturesque California, The Mountains of California, The Yosemite & Our National Parks (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Writings and Wilderness Essays

Source: JOHN MUIR’S CALIFORNIA COLLECTION: My First Summer in the Sierra, Picturesque California, The Mountains of California, The Yosemite & Our National Parks (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Writings and Wilderness Essays

“None may wholly escape the good of Nature, however imperfectly exposed to her blessings. The minister will not preach a perfectly flat and sedimentary sermon after climbing a snowy peak; and the fair play and tremendous impartiality of Nature, so tellingly displayed, will surely affect the after pleadings of the lawyer. Fresh air at least will get into everybody, and the cares of mere business will be quenched like the fires of a sinking ship.”

Source: JOHN MUIR’S CALIFORNIA COLLECTION: My First Summer in the Sierra, Picturesque California, The Mountains of California, The Yosemite & Our National Parks (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Writings and Wilderness Essays

“Perhaps the profession of doing good may be full, but every body should be kind at least to himself. Take a course of good water and air, and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you. Some have strange, morbid fears as soon as they find themselves with Nature, even in the kindest and wildest of her solitudes, like very sick children afraid of their mother-as if God were dead and the devil were king.”

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 great wilds of our country, once held to be boundless and inexhaustible, are being rapidly invaded and overrun in every direction, and everything destructible in them is being destroyed. How far destruction may go it is not easy to guess. Every landscape, low and high, seems doomed to be trampled and harried. Even the sky is not safe from scath-blurred and blackened whole summers together with the smoke of fires that devour the woods.”

May Country Whole Seems Together Easy Fire Sky Safe Summer Lows Destruction Environmental Woods Destroyed Our Country Smoke Landscape Doomed Boundless

Book:The Writings of John Muir: Steep trails

Source: The Writings of John Muir: Steep trails

“Society doesn't need that everybody is behaving in the full normal way... like people in a Buddhist monastery... But eccentricity may also connect with the irrational.”

People Way Needs May Normal Buddhist Irrational Eccentricity Monasteries

Author:John Muir

“Every atom in creation may be said to be acquainted with and married to every other, but with universal union there is a division sufficient in degree for the purposes of the most intense individuality.”

May Said Purpose Creation Degrees Married Universal Unions Individuality Intense Sufficient Division Atoms

Book:John Muir: Nature Writings

Source: John Muir: Nature Writings

“Many of Nature's finest lessons are to be found in her storms, and if careful to keep in right relations with them, we may go safely abroad with them, rejoicing in the grandeur and beauty of their works and ways.”

Ifs Way May Found Lessons Relation Careful Storm Rejoice Finest Grandeur

Book:John Muir: Nature Writings

Source: John Muir: Nature Writings

“If I should be fated to walk no more with Nature, be compelled to leave all I most devoutly love in the wilderness, return to civilization and be twisted into the characterless cable of society, then these sweet, free, cumberless rovings will be as chinks and slits on life's horizon, through which I may obtain glimpses of the treasures that lie in God's wilds beyond my reach.”

Ifs Should May Lying Walks Sweet Return Civilization Treasure Wilderness Horizon Glimpse Compelled Twisted Cables Slits Roving Chinks Characterless

Book:The High Sierra of California

Source: The High Sierra of California

“So abundant and novel are the objects of interest in a pure wilderness that unless you are pursuing special studies it matters little where you go, or how often to the same place. Wherever you chance to be always seems at the moment of all places the best; and you feel that there can be no happiness in this world or in any other for those who may not be happy there.”

World Feels May Littles Matter Moments Seems Interest Chance Novel Study Special Objects This World Pure Wilderness

Book:Travels in Alaska

Source: Travels in Alaska

“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.”

Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays

“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.”

May Courses Water Learning Environment Air Youth Eternal Environmental Harm Wilderness Eternal Love World Environment Environmental History Eternal Youth

Book: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

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

“There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.”

May Nature Lord Power Creation Flower Garden Glances Flowers And Gardens Inspirational Flower Plants And Flowers Braggarts May Flowers

Book:The Wilderness Journeys

Source: The Wilderness Journeys

“One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.”

People Men Wells Heart May Water Church Temples Wilderness Tanks Cathedrals Dams Sierra Commercialism Well Wishes

Book:The Yosemite: John Muir's quest to preserve the wilderness

Source: The Yosemite: John Muir's quest to preserve the wilderness

“So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.”

Men May Bounds Affair Tides Flood

Book:John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings

Source: John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings