John Muir People Quotations

One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.

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

Most people are on the world, not in it-- having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them-- undiffused seporate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but seporate.

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

I am very blessed. The Valley is full of people, but they do not annoy me. I revolve in pathless places and in higher rocks than the world and his ribbony wife can reach.

Some people miss flesh as a drunkard misses his dram...

It is a fine thing to see people in hot earnest about anything.

Society doesn't need that everybody is behaving in the full normal way... like people in a Buddhist monastery... But eccentricity may also connect with the irrational.

Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play.

It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.

Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.

Most people are on the world, not in it.

Keep in view the common good of the people for all time.

…their eager, childlike attention was refreshing to see as compared with the decent, deathlike apathy of weary civilized people, in whom natural curiosity has been quenched in toil and care and poor, shallow comfort.

Hiking. I don't like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains...the se mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not 'hike' through them.