John Muir Quotes on People (4 Quotes)

Most people are on the world, not in it. - have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them undiffused, separate, andrigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home that wildness isa necessity and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.

keep in view the common good of the people for all time.

The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes,the heart of the people is always right.