John Muir Quotes

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing.

But only God can make a tree.

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees, and bleached fields with the fantasy of wind blowing and changing colors and forms.

Nature is our chapel.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.

I'm very inspired by nature - you could say Mother Nature. I look at things around me and get all kinds of inspiration daily.

For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces.

That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Nature is a big part of my weekend. Whenever possible, I take Friday and Monday off and spend four days outdoors. We should remind ourselves that there was something here before us, a force more powerful than us.

Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.

God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.

Nature is my church. The wind in the trees and the bugs and the frogs. All those things are comfort to me.

We now use the word 'nature' very much as our fathers used the word 'God.'

Storms of every sort, torrents, earthquakes, cataclysms, 'convulsions of nature,' etc., however mysterious and lawless at first sight they may seem, are only harmonious notes in the song of creation, varied expressions of God's love.

To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.