Favorite John Muir Quotes

Here are a few of my favorite John Muir quotes:

“We all travel the milky way together, trees and men; but it never occurred to me until this stormday, while swinging in the wind that trees are travelers, in the ordinary sense. They make many journeys, not extensive ones, it is true; but our own little journeys, away and back again, are only little more than tree-wavings – many of them not so much.” (The Mountains of California, 256)

“None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild…” (Our National Parks, 4)

“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 off like autumn leaves.” (Our National Parks, 42)

“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.” (My First Summer in the Sierra, 211)

"Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly small mischievous microbes— all are warm with divine radium and must have lots of fun in them. (The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, 149)

"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 alike." (The Yosemite, 192)

As of yet these are my favorites, I feel like they truly epitomize the essence of John Muir. And they just sound nice, he was a very poetic man after all.