John Muir Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!”

“How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!”

“To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.”

“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.”

“The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.”

“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.”

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