Quote

Listen to them! How wholly infused with God is this one big word of love that we call the world!

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
Word
Bigs
Love
World
Infused
Wholly
Listening
Listen
Call

More quotes by 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
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
All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world's wildernesses I first should wander.
John Muir
Image
Our lives are rounded with a sleep.
John Muir
Image
The water in music the oar forsakes. The air in music the wing forsakes. All things in move in music and write it. The mouse, lizard, and grasshopper sing together on the Turlock sands, sing with the morning stars.
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
I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer.
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
See how God writes history. No technical knowledge is required only a calm day and a calm mind.
John Muir
Image
The blessings of one mountain day, whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.
John Muir
Image
Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
John Muir
Image
I've had a great time in South America and South Africa. Indeed it now seems that on this pair of wild hot continents I've enjoyed the most fruitful year of my life.
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
Image
The mountains are fountains not only of rivers and fertile soil, but of men.
John Muir
Image
...every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
John Muir
Image
Writing is like the life of a glacier one eternal grind.
John Muir
Image
Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away and if they could, they would still be destroyed-chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got of their bark hides.
John Muir
Image
Going into the woods, is going home
John Muir
Image
Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
John Muir
Image
I never saw a discontented tree.
John Muir