Top 65 Quotes by John Muir

About John Muir

These are some quotes by American author John Muir Environmentalist, who lived between April 21, 1838 and December 24, 1914.

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.

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

The redwood is one of the few conifers that sprout from the stump and roots, and it declares itself willing to begin immediately to repair the damage of the lumberman and also that of the forest-burner.

John Muir

The coniferous forests of the Yosemite Park, and of the Sierra in general, surpass all others of their kind in America, or indeed the world, not only in the size and beauty of the trees, but in the number of species assembled together, and the grandeur of the mountains they are growing on.

John Muir

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

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

John Muir

Of all the mountain ranges I have climbed, I like the Sierra Nevada the best.

Of all the mountain ranges I have climbed, I like the Sierra Nevada the best.

John Muir

I bade adieu to mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God.

I bade adieu to mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God.

John Muir

How terribly downright must be the utterances of storms and earthquakes to those accustomed to the soft hypocrisies of society.

How terribly downright must be the utterances of storms and earthquakes to those accustomed to the soft hypocrisies of society.

John Muir

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

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

John Muir

The dispersal of juniper seeds is effected by the plum and cherry plan of hiring birds at the cost of their board, and thus obtaining the use of a pair of extra good wings.

The dispersal of juniper seeds is effected by the plum and cherry plan of hiring birds at the cost of their board, and thus obtaining the use of a pair of extra good wings.

John Muir

The mountains are calling and I must go.

The mountains are calling and I must go.

John Muir

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