John Muir Quotes

Everything on Earth is being continuously transformed.

Nature obliges everything to change about. One thing crumbles and falls in the weakness of age; Another grows in its place from a negligible start. So time alters the whole nature of the world And earth passes from one state to another.

Nothing retains its form; new shapes from old. Nature, the great inventor, ceaselessly contrives. In all creation, be assured, there is no death - no death, but only change and innovation; what we men call birth is but a different new beginning; death is but to cease to be the same. Perhaps this may have moved to that, and that to this, yet still the sum of things remains the same.

Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.

Change isn't a scary thing. It's constant and inevitable.

Look abroad thro' Nature's range. Nature's mighty law is change.

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.

I just understand that life is a constant change and a constant evolution.

I mean, everything that is upon this earth, even from a worm or a caterpillar that blossoms into a butterfly, you know, these things are just amazing.

Trees and flowers are so important. The idea of blooming is the idea of becoming something different.

Observe always that everything is the result of a change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and to make new ones like them.

It is almost banal to say so yet it needs to be stressed continually: all is creation, all is change, all is flux, all is metamorphosis.

Nature doth thus kindly heal every wound. By the mediation of a thousand little mosses and fungi, the most unsightly objects become radiant of beauty. There seem to be two sides of this world, presented us at different times, as we see things in growth or dissolution, in life or death. And seen with the eye of the poet, as God sees them, all things are alive and beautiful.

Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh, hear!

Change is the essence of life.

Consider the rose...The rose is the sweetest smelling flower of all, and it's the most beautiful because it's the most simple, right? But sometimes, you got to clip the rose. You got to cut the rose back, so something sweeter smelling and stronger, and even more beautiful, will grow in its place

I was once more in a time which the things around me were changing and that is how I wanted it to be for the rest of my days.