Quote

Wherever a Scotsman goes, here goes Burns. His grand whole, catholic soul squares with the good of all therefore we find him in everything, everywhere.

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
Soul
Scotland
Find
Squares
Everything
Grand
Whole
Wherever
Good
Catholic
Scotsman
Everywhere
Scotsmen
Therefore
Scots
Goes
Burns

More quotes by John Muir

Image
These beautiful days ... do not exist as mere pictures - maps hung upon the walls of memory to brighten at times when touched by association or will ... They saturate themselves into every part of the body and live always.
John Muir
Image
Books are but stepping stones to show you where other minds have been.
John Muir
Image
At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
John Muir
Image
Man and other civilized animals are the only creatures that ever become dirty.
John Muir
Image
My meals were easily made, for they were all alike and simple, only a cupful of tea and bread.
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
Look up and down and round about you.!
John Muir
Image
Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
John Muir
Image
Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
John Muir
Image
I have enjoyed the trees & scenery of KY exceedingly. How shall I ever tell of the miles & miles of beauty that have been flowing into me in such measure?
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
God cannot save them from fools.
John Muir
Image
Nature in her green, tranquil woods heals and soothes all afflictions.
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
As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I'll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can.
John Muir
Image
In God's wildness lies the hope of the world.
John Muir
Image
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
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
Image
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
John Muir
Image
I was awakened by a tremendous earthquake, and though I hadn ever before enjoyed a storm of this sort, the strange thrilling motion could not be mistaken, and I ran out of my cabin, both glad and frightened, shouting, A noble earthquake! A noble earthquake feeling sure I was going to learn something.
John Muir