John Muir also known as “John of the Mountains” and “Father of the National Parks”, was an influential Scottish-American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, botanist, zoologist, glaciologist, and early advocate for the preservation of wilderness in the United States of America. His letters, essays, and books describing his adventures in nature, especially in the Sierra Nevada, have been read by millions. His activism helped to preserve the Yosemite Valley and Sequoia National Park, and his example has served as an inspiration for the preservation of many other wilderness areas. The Sierra Club, which he co-founded, is a prominent American conservation organization. In his later life, Muir devoted most of his time to the preservation of the Western forests. As part of the campaign to make Yosemite a national park, Muir published two landmark articles on wilderness preservation in The Century Magazine, “The Treasures of the Yosemite” and “Features of the Proposed Yosemite National Park”; this helped support the push for U.S. Congress to pass a bill in 1890 establishing Yosemite National Park. The spiritual quality and enthusiasm toward nature expressed in his writings has inspired readers, including presidents and congressmen, to take action to help preserve large nature areas. John Muir has been considered “an inspiration to both Scots and Americans”. Muir’s biographer, Steven J. Holmes, believes that Muir has become “one of the patron saints of twentieth-century American environmental activity,” both political and recreational. As a result, his writings are commonly discussed in books and journals, and he has often been quoted by nature photographers such as Ansel Adams. “Muir has profoundly shaped the very categories through which Americans understand and envision their relationships with the natural world,” writes Holmes. May these John Muir Quotes On Success inspire you to take action so that you may live your dreams.
1. “Nature in her green, tranquil woods heals and soothes all afflictions.” John Muir
2. “Wilderness is a necessity, there must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls.” John Muir
3. “Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life.” John Muir
4. “The mountains are calling and I must go.” John Muir
5. “As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.” John Muir
6. “The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.” John Muir
7. “I wonder if leaves feel lonely when they see their neighbors falling?” John Muir
8. “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
9. “Wilderness is not only a haven for native plants and animals but it is also a refuge from society. Its a place to go to hear the wind and little else, see the stars and the galaxies, smell the pine trees, feel the cold water, touch the sky and the ground at the same time, listen to coyotes, eat the fresh snow, walk across the desert sands, and realize why its good to go outside of the city and the suburbs. Fortunately, there is wilderness just outside the limits of the cities and the suburbs in most of the United States, especially in the West.” John Muir
10. “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 be always seems the best.” John Muir
11. “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.” John Muir
12. “Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.” John Muir
13. “Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods.” John Muir
14. “The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.” John Muir
15. “Going into the woods, is going home.” John Muir
16. “Wherever we go in the mountains, we find more than we seek.” John Muir
17. “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
18. “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
19. “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
20. “The battle for conservation will go on endlessly. It is part of the universal battle between right and wrong.” John Muir
21. “Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.” John Muir
22. “In the eternal youth of Nature, you may renew your own.” John Muir
23. “This 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
24. “The sun shines not on us but in us.” John Muir
25. “When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” John Muir
26. “In the eternal youth of Nature, you may renew your own.” John Muir
27. “The power of imagination makes us infinite.” John Muir
28. “In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.” John Muir
29. “When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.” John Muir
30. “How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!” John Muir
31. “In this silent, serene wilderness the weary can gain a heart-bath in perfect peace.” John Muir
32. “Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.” John Muir
33. “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, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.” John Muir
34. “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
35. “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
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