John Muir Quotes

I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I was living peaceably when people began to speak bad of me. Now I can eat well, sleep well and be glad. I can go everywhere with a good feeling.

Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.

Peace is its own reward.

On all the peaks lies peace.

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

Simplicity makes me happy.

To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature.

I love paddle boarding. It gives me that feeling of peace as well as an opportunity to enjoy nature's true beauty.

As we start to get a little bit older, boy, keep your house in order. That's the key thing. It's not about the thrills anymore. It's about contentment, about having some serenity.

Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.

And the tree was happy

To me there is something completely and satisfyingly restful in that stretch of sea and sand, sea and sand and sky - complete peace, complete fulfillment.

My prayer is simple my dear one, my dear one. May you never need understand. My prayer is for peacetime, my child, my child. Live it well and this life can be grand.

Whatever time we have," he said, "it will be time enough.

Animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.

When we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy. Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness.

All the trees are losing their leaves, and not one of them is worried.

When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope.

And where was happiness if it sprung not from the soil? Where contentment if it dwelt not near to Nature?

The natural is so awesome that we need not go beyond it.

My heart is tuned to the quietness that the stillness of nature inspires.

Without desire there is stillness, and the world settles by itself.