Quotes by John Muir

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

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

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

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.

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

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.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.