Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

John Muir
Age: 76 †
Born: 1838
Born: April 21
Died: 1914
Died: December 24
Author
Autobiographer
Botanist
Conservationist
Ecologist
Engineer
Essayist
Explorer
Geologist
Glaciologist
Inventor
Mountaineer
Naturalist
J. Muir
Like
Songs
Trees
Roaring
Quiet
Storm
Cathedrals
Minutes
Cease
Outer
Tree
Tragedy
Wilderness
Bowing
Though
Excited
Branches
Swirling
Song
Ears
Forests
Tossing
Every
Silent
Glorious
Incense
Never
Worship
Enthusiasm
Waving

More quotes by John Muir

Image
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.
John Muir
Image
God cannot save them from fools.
John Muir
Image
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.
John Muir
Image
Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
John Muir
Image
Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts . . .
John Muir
Image
The tide of visitors will float slowly about the bottom of the valley as harmless scum collecting in hotel and saloon eddies, leaving the rocks and falls eloquent as ever.
John Muir
Image
There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.
John Muir
Image
Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
John Muir
Image
John Muir, Earth-planet, Universe.
John Muir
Image
Wherever we go in the mountains, we find more than we seek.
John Muir
Image
Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Here grow the wallflower and the violet. The squirrel will come and sit upon your knee, the logcock will wake you in the morning. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill. Of all the upness accessible to mortals, there is no upness comparable to the mountains.
John Muir
Image
No Sierra landscape that I have seen holds anything truly dead or dull, or any trace of what in manufactories is called rubbish or waste everything is perfectly clean and pure and full of divine lessons.
John Muir
Image
Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way.
John Muir
Image
But no temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life...as if into this one mountain mansion Nature had gathered her choicest treasures.
John Muir
Image
In the eternal youth of Nature, you may renew your own.
John Muir
Image
This 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
Image
In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others
John Muir
Image
In the woods is perpetual youth.
John Muir
Image
Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
John Muir
Image
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
John Muir