– John Muir

“Nature is always lovely, invincible, glad, whatever is done and suffered by her creatures. All scars she heals, whether in rocks or water or sky or hearts.” 

– John Muir 

“Keep close to Nature’s heart and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.”

– John Muir

“God never made an ugly landscape. All that sun shines on is beautiful, so long as it is wild.”

– John Muir

"Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts."

– John Muir

“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.” 

– John Muir

“One can make a day of any size and regulate the rising and setting of his sun and the brightness of its shining.”

– John Muir

“Everybody 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

“Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.”  

– John Muir

“Take 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

“The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.”