John Muir Quotes

I'm always happy when I'm outside working in the company of nature.

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.

I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least - and it is commonly more than that - sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

I like to be grounded by nature, go hiking... go to an isolated island that's not glamorous and touristy at all.

I don't know if nature is a direct literary influence on my writing, but it is certainly important to me. I take great joy in writing about it. It is something I have taken with me from my childhood; the body exposed to the threat of the physical world and at the same time being at home in it.

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

For a long time all I wanted for Christmas were books about outdoor survival. I was convinced that the woods were calling me. I camped a lot, I took classes. At 18, I told myself if I don't live in the woods by myself by the time I'm 25, I have failed.

Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me.

Hiking is a great passion of mine, and I find myself picking up empty bottles.

Exposing children to nature, especially at an early age, keeps them grounded.

We go into nature to transform.

Sometimes I just need to be out in nature. It's amazing how much I need time on my own.

When you surround yourself with nature, it's really powerful.

I miss the woods. Sometimes I go on weekend trips and just wander the woods, barefoot and reminiscing, and I put my contact lenses in. Is that weird?

Poets knew that isolation in nature, far from people and things man-made, was good for the soul, and he'd always identified with poets.

I dressed and went for a walk - determined not to return until I took in what Nature had to offer.

Wilderness to the people of America is a spiritual necessity, an antidote to the high pressure of modern life, a means of regaining serenity and equilibrium.

In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught.

It's sad that children don't spend enough time looking around and being amazed by what's in the real world.

I'm becoming more and more of a backwoodsman. I always used to be more of a city guy, and more and more, I'm starting to enjoy being in nature. Just to sit and slow down a little bit.

Under trees, the urban dweller might restore his troubled soul and find the blessing of a creative pause.

I worry that more and more kids my age are growing up without experiencing the outdoors, which means that fewer will care about the natural world.

I go to the Himalayas after every film. I go alone. I go to the interiors, to the villages. Being there itself is like meditation.

The Loro Piana man is a very active one: he works hard, and when he has time off, being close to nature is important to him.