John Muir

I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news ↗

— John Muir

#materialism #mountains #nature #wildness-is-a-necessity #life

When we tug at a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world. ↗

— John Muir

#nature

Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance. ↗

— John Muir

#life

Everyone needs beauty as well as bread, places to play and pray, where nature heals and give strength to body and soul alike. ↗

— John Muir

#beauty

Nothing truly wild is unclean. ↗

— John Muir

#nature #sierra-mountains #wilderness #nature

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. ↗

— John Muir

#inspirational

Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings. ↗

— John Muir

#fiber #harp #harp-strings #john-muir #life

Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get---people,storms, guardian angels, or sheep.... ↗

— John Muir

#inspirational

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. ↗

— John Muir

#john-muir #nature #wilderness #change

What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm! ↗

— John Muir

#nature