Quote

…their eager, childlike attention was refreshing to see as compared with the decent, deathlike apathy of weary civilized people, in whom natural curiosity has been quenched in toil and care and poor, shallow comfort.

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
Care
Compared
Quenched
People
Civilized
Refreshing
Decent
Childlike
Curiosity
Eager
Comfort
Apathy
Attention
Toil
Poor
Shallow
Natural
Weary

More quotes by 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
Strange the faithless fuss made about taking a walk in the safest and pleasantest of all places, a wilderness.
John Muir
Image
Going to the mountains is going home.
John Muir
Image
Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
John Muir
Image
One learns that the world, though made, is yet being made that this is still the morning of creation that mountains long conceived are now being born, channels traced for coming rivers, basins hollowed for lakes.
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
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
Image
Only spread a fern-frond over a man's head and worldly cares are cast out, and freedom and beauty and peace come in.
John Muir
Image
Who publishes the sheet-music of the winds or the music of water written in river-lines?
John Muir
Image
Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on seas and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.
John Muir
Image
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.
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
There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
John Muir
Image
Go quietly alone, no harm will befall you.
John Muir
Image
God cannot save them from fools.
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
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
I will follow my instincts, be myself for good or ill, and see what will be the upshot.
John Muir
Image
...every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
John Muir
Image
All Nature's wildness tells the same story: the shocks and outbursts of earthquakes, volcanoes, geysers, roaring, thundering waves and floods, the silent uprush of sap in plants, storms of every sort, each and all, are the orderly, beauty-making love-beats of Nature's heart.
John Muir