John Muir Quotes on World (5 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.

The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, and of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able menwhose thoughts and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this glorious starry firmament for a roof In such places standing alone on themountain-top it is easy to realize that whatever special nests we make leaves and moss like the marmots and birds, or tents or piled stone we all dwell in a house of one room the world with the firmament for its roof and are sailing the celestial spaces without leaving anytrack.

To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.