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"A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease." ~John Muir, naturalist, explorer, and writer (1838-1914)
"All the wild world is beautiful, and it matters but little where we go, to highlands or lowlands, woods or plains, on the sea or land or down among the crystals of waves or high in a balloon in the sky; through all the climates, hot or cold, storms and calms, everywhere and always we are in God's eternal beauty and love. So universally true is this, the spot where we chance to always seem the best."-John Muir
"And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul." ~John Muir
"Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way." ~John Muir
"All the wild world is beautiful, and it matters but little where we go, to highlands or lowlands, woods or plains, on the sea or land or down among the crystals of waves or high in a balloon in the sky; through all the climates, hot or cold, storms and calms, everywhere and always we are in God's eternal beauty and love. So universally true is this, the spot where we chance to always seem the best."-John Muir
"And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul." ~John Muir
"Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way." ~John Muir
"As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I’ll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I’ll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can.” – John Muir
“Bears are made of the same dust as we, and they breathe the same winds and drink of the same waters. A bear's days are warmed by the same sun, and his life turns and ebbs with heart pulsing like ours.” ~John Muir
“Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.” ~John Muir
"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you... while cares will drop off like autumn leaves." ~John Muir
"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you... while cares will drop off like autumn leaves." ~John Muir
"Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods.” ~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
"The power of imagination makes us infinite." ~John Muir
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"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
“Going to the mountains is going home.” ~John Muir
"Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it." ~John Muir
"HIKING - I don't like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains - not hike! Do you know the origin of that word 'saunter?' It's a beautiful word. Away back in the Middle Ages people used to go on pilgrimages to the Holy Land, and when people in the villages through which they passed asked where they were going, they would reply, 'A la sainte terre,' 'To The Holy Land.' And so they became known as sainte-terre -ers or saunterers. Now these mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not 'hike' through them." ~John Muir
"How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!" ~John Muir
"Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it." ~John Muir
"HIKING - I don't like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains - not hike! Do you know the origin of that word 'saunter?' It's a beautiful word. Away back in the Middle Ages people used to go on pilgrimages to the Holy Land, and when people in the villages through which they passed asked where they were going, they would reply, 'A la sainte terre,' 'To The Holy Land.' And so they became known as sainte-terre -ers or saunterers. Now these mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not 'hike' through them." ~John Muir
"How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!" ~John Muir
“I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer.” ~John Muir
"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. They 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
"I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in." ~John Muir, 1913
"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." ~John Muir
"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. They 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
"I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in." ~John Muir, 1913
"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." ~John Muir
“In God's wildness lies the hope of the world. “ ~John Muir
"In God's wildness lies the hope of the world - the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware." ~John Muir
“In this silent, serene wilderness the weary can gain a heart-bath in perfect peace.” ~John Muir
“Keep 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
“Keep 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
“Look! Nature is overflowing with the grandeur of God!” ~John Muir
"Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt." ~John Muir
"Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us, God.” ~John Muir
"Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us, God.” ~John Muir
“One day's exposure to mountains is better than cartloads of books. See how willingly Nature poses herself upon photographers' plates. No earthly chemicals are so sensitive as those of the human soul.” ~John Muir
“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.” ~John Muir
"Rivers flow not past, but through us; tingling, vibrating, exciting every cell and fiber in our bodies, making them sing and glide." ~John Muir
"Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen" ~John Muir
“Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.” ~John Muir
“Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.” ~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
"Take nothing but pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time." ~John Muir
"The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness." ~John Muir
“The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.” ~John Muir
"The mountain streams sing the history of every avalanche or earthquake and of snow, all easily recognized by the human ear." ~John Muir
"The mountains are calling and I must go." ~John Muir
"The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness." ~John Muir
“The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.” ~John Muir
"The mountain streams sing the history of every avalanche or earthquake and of snow, all easily recognized by the human ear." ~John Muir
"The mountains are calling and I must go." ~John Muir
"The power of imagination makes us infinite." ~John Muir
“The radiance in some places is so great as to be fairly dazzling...a window opening into heaven, a mirror reflecting the Creator.” ~John Muir
"The snow is melting into music." ~John Muir
“The sun shines not on us but in us.
The rivers flow not past, but through us.
Thrilling, tingling, vibrating
every fiber and cell of the substance
of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
The trees wave and the flowers bloom
in our bodies as well as our souls,
and every bird song, wind song,
and tremendous storm song
of the rocks in the heart
of the mountains is our song,
our very own, and sings our love.”
~John Muir
"There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties." ~John Muir
"These beautiful days must enrich all my life. They do not exist as mere pictures ... But they saturate themselves into every part of the (word?) and live always." ~Jihn Muir
"This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on seas and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls." ~John Muir
"Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity; and that fountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life!"~John Muir
“The sun shines not on us but in us.
The rivers flow not past, but through us.
Thrilling, tingling, vibrating
every fiber and cell of the substance
of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
The trees wave and the flowers bloom
in our bodies as well as our souls,
and every bird song, wind song,
and tremendous storm song
of the rocks in the heart
of the mountains is our song,
our very own, and sings our love.”
~John Muir
"There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties." ~John Muir
"These beautiful days must enrich all my life. They do not exist as mere pictures ... But they saturate themselves into every part of the (word?) and live always." ~Jihn Muir
Sunrise over the sea
Bohol, Philippines
November 2011
Bohol, Philippines
November 2011
"This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on seas and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls." ~John Muir
"Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity; and that fountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life!"~John Muir
“To sit in solitude, to think in solitude with only the music of the stream and the cedar to break the flow of silence, there lies the value of wilderness.” ~John Muir
“What wonders lie in every mountain day!” ~John Muir
"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world." ~John Muir
"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe." ~John Muir
"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world." ~John Muir
"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe." ~John Muir
“Wilderness is a necessity … there must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls.’ ~John Muir
“You are not in the mountains. The mountains are in you.” ~John Muir
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