Quotes by John Muir

"When we try to pick up anything by itself we find it is attached to everything in the Universe." 

If the Creator were to bestow a new set of senses upon us, or slightly remodel the present ones, leaving all the rest of nature unchanged, we should never doubt we were in another world, and so in strict reality we should be, just as if all the world besides our senses were changed.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul.

In every walk with nature one receives more than he seeks.

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.

I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out 'till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. -Journal, 1913,

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out until sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.

One can make a day of any size and regulate the rising snd setting of his own sun and the brightness of its shining

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.