“Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on seas and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.”
Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir
“It is a fine thing to see people in hot earnest about anything.”
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
“To ask me whether I could endure to live without friends is absurd. It is easy enough to live out of material sight of friends, but to live without human love is impossible.”
Source: John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations
“Bread without butter or coffee without milk is an awful calamity, as if everything before being put in our mouth must first be held under a cow.”
Source: John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir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.”
Source: John Muir: Nature Writings
“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 moon is looking down into the canyon, and how marvelously the great rocks kindle to her light! Every dome, and brow, and swelling boss touched by her white rays, glows as if lighted with snow.”
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
“Listen to them! How wholly infused with God is this one big word of love that we call the world!”
Source: John Muir: Nature Writings
“Quench love, and what is left of a man's life but the folding of a few jointed bones and square inches of flesh? Who would call that life?”
Source: John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations
“Nothing can be done well at a speed of forty miles a day. The multitude of mixed, novel impressions rapidly piled on one another make only a dreamy, bewildering, swirling blur, most of which is unrememberable.”
Source: JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more