John Muir

John Muir

15 quotes

Known primarily as a Scottish -American naturalist, John Muir also happens to be one of the most quotable figures in our collection. Known for "John of the Mountains" and "Father of the National Parks", was a Scottish-born American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, botanist, zoologist, glaciologist, and early advocate for the preservation of wilderness in the United States, their words carry the weight of lived experience. Discover 28 of John Muir's most memorable quotes, ranging across Nature, Environmental, Wisdom, Travel, and Power. As John Muir put it: "To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world."

“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.”

— John Muir

Good

All Quotes by John Muir

“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.”

— John Muir

Nature

“To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.”

— John Muir

Travel

“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

Alone

“There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.”

— John Muir

Power

“How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!”

— John Muir

Inspirational

“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.”

— John Muir

Environmental

“The mountains are calling and I must go.”

— John Muir

Nature

“The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.”

— John Muir

Nature

“I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.”

— John Muir

Nature

“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.”

— John Muir

Good

“The power of imagination makes us infinite.”

— John Muir

Imagination

“God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.”

— John Muir

Environmental

“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”

— John Muir

Nature

“Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.”

— John Muir

Environmental

“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.”

— John Muir

Beauty