John Muir
John Muir
John Muir also known as "John of the Mountains", was a Scottish-American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States. His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature, especially in the Sierra Nevada of California, have been read by millions. His activism helped to preserve the Yosemite Valley, Sequoia National Park and other wilderness areas. The Sierra Club, which he founded, is a prominent American conservation organization. The 211-mileJohn Muir...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEnvironmentalist
Date of Birth21 April 1838
CountryUnited States of America
Come to the woods, for here is rest.
All wilderness seems to be full of tricks and plans to drive and draw us up into God's light.
The most distinctive, and perhaps the most impressive, characteristic of American scenery is its wilderness.
You know that I have not lagged behind in the work of exploring our grand wilderness, and in calling everybody to come and enjoy the thousand blessings they have to offer.
Strange the faithless fuss made about taking a walk in the safest and pleasantest of all places, a wilderness.
No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
Go quietly alone, no harm will befall you.
Who wouldn't be a mountaineer! Up here all the world's prizes seem nothing
Wilderness is a necessity... there must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls...
The clearest way to the Universe is through a forest wilderness
Brought into right relationships with the wilderness, man would see that his appropriation of Earth's resourcesbeyond his personal needs would only bring imbalance and begat ultimate loss and poverty by all.
Doubly happy, however, is the man whom lofty mountain tops are within reach, for the lights that shine there illumine all that lies below
Nature chose for a tool, not the earthquake or lightning to rend and split asunder, not the stormy torrent or eroding rain, but the tender snow-flowers noiselessly falling through unnumbered centuries.
To some, beauty seems but an accident of creation: to Muir it was the very smile of God.