John Muir Quotes

As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.

People need to be cautious because anything built by man can be destroyed by Mother Nature.

If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.

Nature is the worst terrorist you can imagine.

What's taken God 200 years to create was wiped out in a couple of days by what was apparently an arsonist, And it just shows you what a sick world we live in nowadays.

God looks after children, animals and idiots.

The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.

Many a sin has sullied me in body and in soul because I did not restrain my thoughts nor guard my lips: nevertheless it is to Thee, O God of majesty and love, that I turn in my extremity, for Thou art the fount of mercy; to Thee, as quickly as I may, I speed: for Thou alone canst heal me; I take refuge under Thy protection.

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

God bless Africa, Guard her people, Guide her leaders, And give her peace.

When trouble comes, focus on God's ability to care for you.

We live on a planet that is amazing, beautiful, and full of wonder but not protected from powerful destructive forces of nature. We are capable of doing wonderful and selfless things but also self-absorbed and harmful things. This is the world we live in.

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

God bless all the little children in the world.

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.

Man is nature's sole mistake.

In presence of Nature's grand convulsions, man is powerless.

The first line in the first 'Gasland' is: 'I'm not a pessimist. I've always had a great deal of faith in people that we won't succumb to frenzy or rage or greed. That we'll figure out a solution without destroying the things that we love.' I have not lost that sense.

War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me.