Most people are on the world, not in it — have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them — undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.
John MuirGoing to the mountains is going home.
John MuirWe all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
John MuirBetween every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
John MuirAnother glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where. Life seems neither long nor short, and we take no more heed to save time or make haste than do the trees and stars. This is true freedom, a good practical sort of immortality.
John MuirStichwörter: science nature time naturalism immortality practical sierra
There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
John MuirStichwörter: nature harmony relative
Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
John MuirThis time it is real — all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
John MuirStichwörter: reality death glory
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike.
John MuirStichwörter: beauty nature life-lessons
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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