Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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The sun shines not on us but in us. The rivers flow not past, but through us. Thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing. The trees wave and the flowers bloom in our bodies as well as our souls, and every bird song, wind song, and tremendous storm song of the rocks in the heart of the mountains is our song, our very own, and sings our love.

John Muir's Popular Quotes

The mountains are calling and I must go.

- John Muir

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshne…

- John Muir

Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.

- John Muir

I’d rather be in the mountains thinking of God, than in church thinking about the mountains.

- John Muir

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a neces…

- John Muir

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

- John Muir

Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life.

- John Muir

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

- John Muir

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

- John Muir