🌲 Inspirational Quotes from John Muir
John Muir was not only a pioneer of wilderness preservation — he was a mystic of the mountains, a poet of the pines, and a spiritual explorer of the Earth. His words remind us that to enter nature is to come home to the soul.
“The mountains are calling and I must go.”
~ John Muir
🏔️ The Mountains Are Calling
“The mountains are calling and I must go.”
~ John Muir
“Come to the woods, for here is rest...”
~ John Muir
“Of all the upness accessible to mortals, there is no upness comparable to the mountains.”
~ John Muir
“Going to the mountains is going home.”
~ John Muir
“The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers.”
~ John Muir
“The mountains are calling and I must go.”
~ John Muir
🌿 Nature As Teacher
“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings...”
~ John Muir
“Keep close to Nature's heart... Wash your spirit clean.”
~ John Muir
“I only went out for a walk... for going out, I found, was really going in.”
~ John Muir
“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread...”
~ John Muir
“Lie down among the pines for a while...”
~ John Muir
“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings...”
~ John Muir
🌊 Everything Is Connected
“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.”
~ John Muir
“The world is not on the world, but in it.”
~ John Muir
“We all flow from one fountain Soul.”
~ John Muir
“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”
~ John Muir
“Everything is flowing — going somewhere...”
~ John Muir
“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.”
~ John Muir
🌌 Beauty, Spirit & Mystery
“Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.”
~ John Muir
“Another glorious Sierra day... Life seems neither long nor short...”
~ John Muir
“This grand show is eternal...”
~ John Muir
“When one is alone at night in the depths of these woods...”
~ John Muir
“The whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.”
~ John Muir
“This grand show is eternal.”
~ John Muir
🔥 Wildness Is the Way
“In God's wildness lies the hope of the world...”
~ John Muir
“There is a love of wild nature in everybody...”
~ John Muir
“Only by going alone in silence... can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness.”
~ John Muir
“Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees.”
~ John Muir
“All the wild world is beautiful...”
~ John Muir
“In God's wildness lies the hope of the world...”
~ John Muir
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John Muir helped us see the Earth as sacred and whole — now let us turn to another nature philosopher, Henry David Thoreau, and walk further into the woods of wisdom.
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