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John Muir Quotes: 7

  • When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

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

  • Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where. Life seems neither long nor short, and we take no more heed to save time or make haste than do the trees and stars. This is true freedom, a good practical sort of immortality.

    My First Summer in the Sierra
  • John Muir, Earth — planet, Universe[Muir's home address, as inscribed on the inside front cover of his first field journal]

  • This time it is real — all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!

    My First Summer in the Sierra
  • The power of imagination makes us infinite.

  • How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!