John Muir Quotes

Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.

But it's peculiar, as soon as I am in the midst of nature and by myself, everything that is base and trivial vanishes without trace. On such days nothing scares me; and this helps me again and again.

Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.

I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.

Step on the moist, pillowsoft earth, walking gingerly aside a weeping steam that calls your name, for it knows how to heal a wounded heart.

Cross the meadow and the stream and listen as the peaceful water brings peace upon your soul.

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

Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.

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.

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.

I like to escape to the beach and kind of ground myself whenever I can.

Once in a while, the universe lets you be free alone and in peace.

When I get by the ocean, that's the only moment that I get that silence and that connection, not with the ocean, but with myself.

Hawaii is such a wonderful, healing place for me. I feel so at ease with the natives and love the tranquility of the islands. It is a place to find inner peace and be one with nature.

In this life, we are in a constant search for inner peace. We long for it in all aspects of our lives, both personally and professionally. The truth is that we cannot have inner peace without balance. It seems that having too much or too little of anything completely throws off our balance, therefore limiting our inner peace.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.

Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.

Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!

With the coming of spring, I am calm again.

Now that I'm older, I have a much better appreciation of nature, and I love being alone.

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.

I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies.

I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.