John Muir Quotes

Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.

There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing.

This world is full of beauty, as other worlds above, and if we did our duty, it might be as full of love.

Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.

The Universe, so far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine; its extent, its order, its beauty, its cruelty, makes it alike impressive.

For what could be more beautiful than the heavens which contain all beautiful things.

We've let too much time go by. We've been busy with war instead of being busy with peace. And that's what space travel is all about. It's all about peace and exploration and wonder and beauty.

As you pass from sunlight into darkness and back again every hour and a half, you become startlingly aware how artificial are thousands of boundaries we've created to separate and define. And for the first time in your life you feel in your gut the precious unity of the Earth and all the living things it supports.

The spectacle of the sky overwhelms me. Im overwhelmed when I see, in an immense sky, the crescent of the moon, or the sun. There, in my pictures, tiny forms in huge empty spaces. Empty spaces, empty horizons, empty plains - everything which is bare has always greatly impressed me.

We aren't going to have peace on Earth until we recognize the basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality.

Nature expresses a design of love and truth.

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.

‎"Magic is the first and last religion of the world. It has the power to make us whole, to open our eyes to the Dominions and return us to ourselves. Everything that isn't us is also ourselves. We're joined to everything that was, is and will be. From one end of the Imajica to another. From the tiniest mote dancing over this flame to the Godhead Itself.

How full of the creative genius is the air in which these [snowflakes] are generated! I should hardly admire them more if real stars fell and lodged on my coat. Nature is full of genius. Full of the divinity. So that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show.

Time’ has ceased, 'space' has vanished. We now live in a global village... a simultaneous happening

... the song of the world is all of love.

If we looked down at the world from space, we would not see any demarcations of national boundaries. We would simply see one small planet, just one.

Never in all their history have men been able truly to conceive of the world as one: a single sphere, a globe, having the qualities of a globe, a round earth in which all the directions eventually meet, in which there is no center because every point, or none, is center - an equal earth which all men occupy as equals. The airman's earth, if free men make it, will be truly round: a globe in practice, not in theory.

From space, the Bahamas is the most beautiful place on Earth.

... and we shall find A pleasure in the dimness of the stars.

As we begin to comprehend that the earth itself is a kind of manned spaceship hurtling through the infinity of space ~ it will seem increasingly absurd that we have not better organized the life of the human family.

What is a garden if not a miniaturization and celebration, of the place we are in, the universe?

I absolutely believe the species, the planet and the Universe can't survive if we function on hate.