02UndatedI am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.John Muir / quote ↗
03UndatedThe radiance in some places is so great as to be fairly dazzling . . . every crystal every flower a window opening into heaven a mirror reflecting the Creator.John Muir / quote ↗
04UndatedClimb the mountains and get their good tidings: Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine into flowers the winds will blow their freshness into you and the storms their energy and cares will drop off like autumn leaves.John Muir / quote ↗
06UndatedRocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love.John Muir / quote ↗
07UndatedWhen we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.John Muir / quote ↗
08UndatedTrees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!John Muir / quote ↗
09UndatedNature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.John Muir / quote ↗
11UndatedKeep 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 / quote ↗
12UndatedEverybody 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 / quote ↗
13UndatedGoing to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally. But in some of nature's forests, the adventurous traveler seems a feeble, unwelcome creature; wild beasts and the weather trying to kill him, the rank, tangled vegetation, armed with spears and stinging needles, barring his way and making life a hard struggle.John Muir / quote ↗
14UndatedI 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 / quote ↗
15UndatedTake 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 / quote ↗
16UndatedGod 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 / quote ↗
17UndatedThe gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.John Muir / quote ↗
18UndatedI care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God's mountains.John Muir / quote ↗
19UndatedThe more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart of the roughest solitudes with smooth reserve of strength, through dense belts of brush and forest encumbered with fallen trees and boulder piles, across canons, roaring streams, and snow-fields, ever showing forth beauty and courage.John Muir / quote ↗
20UndatedBread without flesh is a good diet, as on many botanical excursions I have proved. Tea also may easily be ignored. Just bread and water and delightful toil is all I need - not unreasonably much, yet one ought to be trained and tempered to enjoy life in these brave wilds in full independence of any particular kind of nourishment.John Muir / quote ↗
21UndatedIt seems strange that bears, so fond of all sorts of flesh, running the risks of guns and fires and poison, should never attack men except in defense of their young. How easily and safely a bear could pick us up as we lie asleep! Only wolves and tigers seem to have learned to hunt man for food, and perhaps sharks and crocodiles.John Muir / quote ↗
22UndatedMan seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living in the earth and eating slimy worms are yet as clean as seals or fishes, whose lives are one perpetual wash.John Muir / quote ↗
24UndatedThere is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.John Muir / quote ↗
