John Muir Quotes

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment.

I am two with nature.

I'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take my photographs from that emotional feeling within me, rather than from an emotional distance as a spectator.

Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the difference between them.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

It is funny how we talk about nature as this separate entity when we are nature, and nature is us.

I don't believe in the separation between mankind and nature. Mankind is nature.

I can't be separated from nature. I am one of her faces.

I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings called human, but I want to realize identity with all life, even with such things as crawl upon earth.

I have inside me the winds, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, and everything created in the universe. We were all made by the same hand, and we have the same soul.

Nature has neither kernel Nor shell

We are creatures like everything else in our world.

In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight.

One might talk about the sanity of the atom the sanity of space the sanity of the electron the sanity of water- For it is all alive and has something comparable to that which we call sanity in ourselves. The only oneness is the oneness of sanity.

We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone.

It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such.

See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.

O lands! O all so dear to me - what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is.

To me, everything is connected. We're a part of nature. We are organic beings. None of us were - all of us come out of a woman. That's the way we're growing.

Nature has neither core nor skin: she’s both at once outside and in.

When you look out of your eyes at nature happening out there...You're looking at you.

Never does nature say one thing and Wisdom another. Variant: Wisdom and Nature! are they not the same? Variant: Nature and Wisdon always speak alike.

The whole universe is one. There is only one Self in the universe, only One Existence, and that One Existence, when it passes through the forms of time, space, causation, is called by different names, buddhi, fine matter, gross matter, all mental and physical forms. Everything in the universe is that One, appearing in various forms. When a little part of it comes, as it were, into this network of time, space and causation, it takes forms. Take off the network, and it is all one.

We can be human only together. A person is a person to other persons. We so desperately long for all of us to learn that we are meant for one another. We are meant for complementarity.