37 John Muir Quotes For Adventure Seekers And Nature Enthusiasts

Liputan6.com, Jakarta If you love the outdoors and exploring nature, you've probably come across John Muir quotes. John Muir was a Scottish-American naturalist, author, and early advocate for the preservation of wilderness in the United States. He is often referred to as the "Father of the National Parks." His quotes are inspiring and encourage adventure seekers and nature lovers to explore and take care of the beauty of nature.

John Muir quotes are a source of wisdom and motivation. They remind us to appreciate the natural world around us and to protect it for future generations. Muir's love for nature and his passion for adventure can be seen in many of his famous quotes. His words remind us of the importance of spending time outdoors and the healing power of nature.

In this article, we have selected some of the best John Muir quotes. These quotes will inspire you to seek out new adventures

1. "I’d rather be in the mountains thinking of God, than in church thinking about the mountains."

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

3. "Wilderness is a necessity. There must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls."

4. "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."

5. "Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt."

6. "The mountains are calling and I must go."

7. "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."

8. "Wherever we go in the mountains, we find more than we seek."

9. "The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark."

10. "Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen"

11. "Going into the woods, is going home"

12. "The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness."

13. "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."

14. "Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees."

15. "In this silent, serene wilderness the weary can gain a heart-bath in perfect peace."

16. "Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world."

17. “When one is alone at night in the depths of the woods, the stillness is at once awful and sublime.”

18. “Come to the woods, for here is rest.”

19. “Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.”

20. “The life of a mountaineer seems to be particularly favorable to the development of soul-life, as well as limb-life, each receiving abundance of exercise and abundance of food.”

1. "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."

2. "When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world."

3. "God never made an ugly landscape. All that sun shines on is beautiful, so long as it is wild."

4. "God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools."

5. "Nature in her green, tranquil woods heals and soothes all afflictions."

6. "The battle for conservation will go on endlessly. It is part of the universal battle between right and wrong."

7. "In God's wildness lies the hope of the world."

8. "When a man plants a tree, he plants himself."

9. "How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!"

10. "Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life."

11. "Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another."

12. "The practical importance of the preservation of our forests is augmented by their relations to climate, soil and streams."

13. "There are no accidents in Nature."

14. "Nature is always lovely, invincible, glad, whatever is done and suffered by her creatures. All scars she heals, whether in rocks or water or sky or hearts."

15. "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."

16. "I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness."

17. “This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.”