List of John Muir Quotes

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John Muir
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One is constantly reminded of the infinite lavishness and fertility of nature-inexhaustible abundance amid what seems enormous waste. and yet when we look into any of her operations that lie within reach of our minds, we learn that no particle of her material is wasted or worn out. it is eternally flowing from use to use, beauty to yet higher beauty; and we soon cease to lament waste and death, and rather rejoice and exult in the imperishable, unspendable wealth of the universe.
Nature Lying Learning
Wherever a scotsman goes, here goes burns. his grand whole, catholic soul squares with the good of all; therefore we find him in everything, everywhere.
Squares Scotland Catholic
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Earth Planets Universe
To myself, mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery; in them, and in the forms of inferior landscape that lead to them, my affections are wholly bound up.
Nature Mountain Landscape
If the creator were to bestow a new set of senses upon us, or slightly remodel the present ones, leaving all the rest of nature unchanged, we should never doubt we were in another world, and so in strict reality we should be, just as if all the world besides our senses were changed.
Nature Reality Leaving
Surely all god's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly small mischievous microbes- all are warm with divine radium and must have lots of fun in them.
Life Nature Fun
We are in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us....how glorious a conversion, so complete and wholesome it is, scarce memory enough of old bondage days left as a standpoint to view it from! in this newness of life we seem to have been so always
Memories Views Cells
The finest of the glacier meadow gardens lie ...imbedded in the upper pine forests like lakes of light.
Lying Garden Lakes
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.
Flower Dark Sky
In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the sierra forests surpass all others
Numbers Tree Forests
Lizards of every temper, style, and color dwell here, seemingly as happy and companionable as the birds and squirrels.
Squirrels Color Bird
Indians walk softly and hurt the landscape hardly more than the birds and squirrels, and their brush and bark huts last hardly longer than those of wood rats, while their more enduring monuments, excepting those wrought on the forests by the fires they made to improve their hunting grounds, vanish in a few centuries.
Hurt Hunting Fire
  • Born: April 21, 1838
  • Died: December 24, 1914
  • Occupation: Author
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