Quote

The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.

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
People
Sort
Comes
Light
Wrongs
Done
Unbelief
Right
Trees
Heart
Ignorance
Every
Darkness
Always
Tree

More quotes by John Muir

Image
Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
John Muir
Image
When a man plants a tree, he plants himself.
John Muir
Image
I should study Nature's laws in all their crossings and unions I should follow magnetic streams to their source and follow the shores of our magnetic oceans. I should go among the rays of the aurora, and follow them to their beginnings, and study their dealings and communications with other powers and expressions of matter.
John Muir
Image
We all flow from one fountain.
John Muir
Image
It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
John Muir
Image
Rivers flow not past, but through us tingling, vibrating, exciting every cell and fiber in our bodies, making them sing and glide.
John Muir
Image
The substance of the winds is too thin for human eyes, their written language is too difficult for human minds, and their spoken language mostly too faint for the ears.
John Muir
Image
When one tugs at a single thing in nature he finds it attached to the rest of the world. Variant - When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe. Variant - Tug on anything at all and you'll find it connected to everything else in the universe.
John Muir
Image
Government protection should be thrown around every wild grove and forest on the mountains, as it is around every private orchard, and the trees in public parks. To say nothing of their value as fountains of timber, they are worth infinitely more than all the gardens and parks of towns.
John Muir
Image
The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God for they were the best he ever planted.
John Muir
Image
Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
John Muir
Image
We all flow from one fountain- Soul. All are expressions of one love.
John Muir
Image
The Big Tree is Nature's forest masterpiece, and so far as I know, the greatest of living things.
John Muir
Image
A little pure wildness is the one great present want, both of men and sheep.
John Muir
Image
The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thoughts and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains - mountain dwellers who have grown strong there with the forest trees in Nature's workshops.
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
Who publishes the sheet-music of the winds or the music of water written in river-lines?
John Muir
Image
In nothing does man, with his grand notions of heaven and charity, show forth his innate, low-bred, wild animalism more clearly than in his treatment of his brother beasts. From the shepherd with his lambs to the red-handed hunter, it is the same no recognition of rights - only murder in one form or another.
John Muir
Image
Any fool can destroy trees, they cannot run away.
John Muir
Image
Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
John Muir