John Muir Quotes

The world is not divided into two types of being, one superior and the other merely surrounding it. Being, nature, the universe - they are all one infinitely complex and mysterious metaorganism of which we are but a part, though a unique one.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.

There isn't a line that you can draw between the air and your body. We are the environment.

I don't believe in the separation between mankind and nature. Mankind is nature.

There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.

All the big problems of the world today are routed in the philosophy of separateness and dualism.

There is no man alone, because every man is a Microcosm, and carries the whole world about him.

So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.

There is no differentiation between all living things: trees, river, animals, and humans. We are all one interdependent organism, so our focus may seem broad but each element interacts with the other. We have so many phenomenal eyes, skills, and hands on deck. It's mind-blowingly exciting.

In nature nothing exists alone.

We now realize that we're not living in a piecemeal world, but a world where everything is linked together.

It turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life.

Everything is connected to everything else.

Man can no longer live his life for himself alone. We realize that all life is valuable and that we are united to all this life. From this knowledge comes our spiritual relationship to the universe.

We are connected to each other not only as humans, but to every living thing on the planet.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment.

The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.

I am two with nature.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There's no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected.

The seed of everything is in everything else.

To drop into being means to recognize your interconnectedness with all life, and with being itself. Your very nature is being part of larger and larger spheres of wholeness.

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.