John Muir Quotes

If you pay attention to the world, it's an amazing place. If you don't, it's whatever you think it is.

Anything is hard to find when you will not open your eyes

You don't always have to look in the distance for what's going on over there, when you actually see what's right in front of you.

Awareness is becoming acquainted with environment, no matter where one happens to be.

Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.

Some entertainers don't pay attention to what's going on around them.

Once I started to look i finally began to see.

Open your eyes and then open your eyes again.

The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.

Look in, look the storm in the eye. Look out, to the sea and the sky. Look around, at the sight and sound. Look in, look out, look around.

To look at a thing is very different from seeing it.

We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.

Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.

But we shall not know the world by looking at it; we know it by looking at the hovering fly.

Awareness is that state of mind which takes in everything-the crows flying across the sky, the flowers on the trees, the people sitting in front, the colors they are wearing - being extensively aware, which needs watching, observing, taking in the shape of the leaf, the shape of the trunk, the shape of the head of another, what he is doing.

While you are looking, you might as well also listen, linger and think about what you see.

I wondered to myself why no one else had seen him standing so far away, before he was suddenly, impossibly saving my life. With chagrin, I realized the probable cause - no one else was as aware of Edward as I always was. No one else watched him the way I did. How pitiful.

One can travel this world and see nothing. To achieve understanding it is necessary not to see many things, but to look hard at what you do see.

We are all too much inclined, I think, to walk through life with our eyes shut. There are things all round us and right at our very feet that we have never seen, because we have never really looked.

My experience is what I agree to attend to.

There's a lot of things you can't see if you aren't' looking.

I always look outside.

Carlyle said that how to observe was to look, but I say that it is rather to see, and the more you look the less you will observe.

Art is about paying attention.

But when we observe, we are forced to pay attention. We have to move from passive absorption to active awareness. We have to engage.