John Muir Quotes

For the world is not painted, or adorned, but is from the beginning beautiful; and God has not made some beautiful things, but Beauty is the creator of the universe.

All the things of the universe are perfect miracles, each as profound as any.

I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.

Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.

When I see nature, when I look into the sky, the dawn, the sun, the colors of insects, snow crystals, the night stars, I don't feel a need for God. Perhaps when I can no longer look and wonder, when I believe in nothing - then, perhaps, I might need something else. But I don't know what.

Light, Life and Love are like three glow-worms at thy feet: the whole universe of stars, the dewdrops on the grass whereon thou walkest!

One of the things I associate with God is a sunrise. How many sunrises have you missed over the years, and God created that?

The universe is incredibly wondrous, incredibly beautiful, and it fills me with a sense that there is some underlying explanation that we have yet to fully understand. If someone wants to place the word 'God' on those collections of words, it's OK with me.

I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.

I've seen the majestic beauty of nature and the overwhelming perfection of it. To me, there's nothing closer to God than that.

A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works.

When I pray, I always thank Mother Nature for all the beauty in the world. It's about having an attitude of gratitude.

The people I don't understand are atheists. I go surfing and snowboarding, and I'm always around nature. I look at everything and think, 'Who couldn't believe there's a God? Is all this a mistake?' It just blows me away.

Beauty is composed of many things and never stands alone. It is part of horizons, blue in the distance, great primeval silences, knowledge of all things of the earth. It embodies the hopes and dreams of those who have gone before, including the spirit world; it is so fragile it can be destroyed by a sound or thought. It may be infinitesimally small or encompass the universe itself. It comes in a swift conception wherever nature has not been disturbed.

Nature is God's workshop. The sky is his resume. The universe is his calling card. You want to know who God is? See what he has done.

No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe. God is the all-fair. Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All.

Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.

Everything is beautiful in it's own way. Like the starry summer night, or a snow-covered winter's day. And everybody's beautiful in their own way. Under God's heaven, the world's gonna find the way.

Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.

Music is the fragrance of the universe.

What we call the highest and the lowest in nature are both equally perfect. A willow bush is as beautiful as the human form divine.

Everything alive is part of each of us, and many things which do not move as we move are part of us. The sun is part of us, the earth, the sky, the stars, the rivers, and the oceans. All things are part of us, and we have come here to enjoy them and to thank God for them.

In its flawless grace and superior self-sufficiency I have seen a symbol of the perfect beauty and bland impersonality of the universe itself, objectively considered, and in its air of silent mystery there resides for me all the wonder and fascination of the unknown.