“I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.”
More from John Muir on Nature
“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.”
“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.”
“There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.”
“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”
“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
“The mountains are calling and I must go.”
“We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.”
Others on Nature
William Wordsworth
12 quotes“Nature never did betrayThe heart that loved her.”
Wendell Berry
5 quotes“There comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot.”
Khalil Gibran
5 quotes“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”
Rabindranath Tagore
4 quotes“The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist.”
John Donne
4 quotes“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.”
Joseph Conrad
4 quotes“The conquest of the earth is not a pretty thing.”
Wallace Stevens
3 quotes“We live in an old chaos of the sun.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
3 quotes“All things want to float.”
Walt Whitman
3 quotes“Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?”
John Keats
3 quotes“Scenery is fine -but human nature is finer”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
3 quotes“Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God.”
John Ruskin
3 quotes“Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless peacocks and lilies for instance.”