Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.
- John Muir - In Mortality
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There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.
- John Muir - In Nature
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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.
- John Muir - In Nature
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
- John Muir - In Nature
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
- John Muir - In Nature
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
- John Muir - In Nature
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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.
- John Muir - In Nature
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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.
- John Muir - In Nature
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A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.
- John Muir - In Nature
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We all travel the milky way together, trees and men... trees are travellers, in the ordinary sense. They make journeys, not very extensive ones, it is true: but our own little comes and goes are only little more than tree-wavings - many of them not so much.
- John Muir - In Nature
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In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
- John Muir - In Nature
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The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.
- John Muir - In Nature
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
- John Muir - In Nature
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Nature chose for a tool, not the earthquake or lightning to rend and split asunder, not the stormy torrent or eroding rain, but the tender snow-flowers noiselessly falling through unnumbered centuries.
- John Muir - In Nature
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
- John Muir - In Nature
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