John Muir World Quotations

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

The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts... Why should man value himself as more than a small part of the one great unit of creation?

No right way is easy in this rough world. We must risk our lives to save them.

Who wouldn't be a mountaineer! Up here all the world's prizes seem nothing

So abundant and novel are the objects of interest in a pure wilderness that unless you are pursuing special studies it matters little where you go, or how often to the same place. Wherever you chance to be always seems at the moment of all places the best; and you feel that there can be no happiness in this world or in any other for those who may not be happy there.

Listen to them! How wholly infused with God is this one big word of love that we call the world!

C. albus...I think the very loveliest of all the lily family - a spotless soul, plant saint, that every one must love and so be made better. It puts the wildest mountaineer on his good behavior. With this plant the whole world would seem rich though non other existed.

All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world's wildernesses I first should wander.

Most people are on the world, not in it.