John Muir Quotes

For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.

I think that I find a lot of my healing out in the world.

The more we can purge ourselves of the diseases we create the more we can become magnificent people.

Make space in your life, space for health and happiness.

The wilderness is healing, a therapy for the soul.

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.

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.

Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature.

Compared to America or Europe, God isn't a big part of our lives here. I don't know anyone here who goes to church when he's had a rough divorce or is going through depression. We go out into nature instead.

The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.

It's really important to have balance, spend some time in nature, go to a few parties, enjoy my friends and really chill out.

There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.

Relaxing, experiencing nature and laughing are what rejuvenate me and make me feel happy. I believe that when I feel happy, that's when I look beautiful... I make a point of laughing out loud every single day.

Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.

Patients describing the benefits of prayer often talk about how it provides a sense of well being.

My purpose is to refuel, refresh and rejuvenate moms.

You can be in terrible shape, and if you take a three-hour walk through the forest and along the river, you're simply not the same as when you started out.

The most restorative activity is to get out in nature where the air quality is a little nicer.

My illness is now in remission, and on a day-to-day basis, I truly feel amazing. I wake up with such incredible energy, which I never had before my illness, and I really feel so in tune with my body.

To the sick, indeed, nature is sick, but to the well, a fountain of health.

We live life in the marketplace and then we go off to the cave or to the meditation mat to replenish ourselves.

Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and Spring.

Rest and play, are as vital to our health as nutrition and exercise