Quote

I will follow my instincts, be myself for good or ill, and see what will be the upshot.

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
Instinct
Follow
Good
Upshot
Instincts
Ill

More quotes by John Muir

Image
I...am always glad to touch the living rock again and dip my hand in the high mountain air.
John Muir
Image
But to gain a perfect view, one must go yet further, over a curving brow to a slight shelf on the extreme brink.
John Muir
Image
In God's wildness lies the hope of the world.
John Muir
Image
What is worthwhile in life? I think it is worth living and dreaming. If you don't you may be dead anyhow - inside.
John Muir
Image
See how God writes history. No technical knowledge is required only a calm day and a calm mind.
John Muir
Image
Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.
John Muir
Image
Wilderness is a necessity... there must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls.
John Muir
Image
Yosemite Park is a place of rest, a refuge from the roar and dust and weary, nervous, wasting work of the lowlands, in which one gains the advantages of both solitude and society.
John Muir
Image
Hiking. I don't like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains...the se mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not 'hike' through them.
John Muir
Image
Wander here a whole summer, if you can ... Thousands of wild blessings will search you and soak you as if you were a sponge, and the big days will go by uncounted
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
Man and other civilized animals are the only creatures that ever become dirty.
John Muir
Image
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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
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
...every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
John Muir
Image
Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
John Muir
Image
In the woods is perpetual youth.
John Muir
Image
None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild.
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