25 John Muir Quotes to Ignite Your Adventurous Spirit

By Samantha Panzera | September 16, 2023 |

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In this blog post, we collected together 25 John Muir Quotes to Ignite Your Adventurous Spirit. We hope that these quotes by John Muir motivate and inspire you to take off on your next hiking adventure. Happy Trails!

1. “What wonders lie in every mountain day!” - John Muir

2. “I am well again, I came to life in the cool winds and crystal waters of the mountains.” - John Muir

3. “The mountains are calling and I must go.” - John Muir

4.“Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action.” - John Muir

“Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action.” - John Muir

5. “Going to the mountains is going home.” - John Muir

6. “Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity...” - John Muir

“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity...” - John Muir

7. “I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news.” - John Muir

“I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news.” - John Muir

8. “Living artificially in towns, we are sickly, and never come to know ourselves.” - John Muir

9. “Most people are on the world, not in it.” - John Muir

10. “Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.” - John Muir

11. “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.” - John Muir

12. “The blessings of one mountain day, whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.” - John Muir

13. “In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.” - John Muir

14. “Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grasses and gentians of glacial meadows, in craggy garden nooks full of nature’s darlings.” - John Muir

“Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grasses and gentians of glacial meadows, in craggy garden nooks full of nature’s darlings.” - John Muir

15. “Wherever we go in the mountains, we find more than we seek.” - John Muir

16. “In the eternal youth of Nature, you may renew your own.” - John Muir

17. “Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.” - John Muir

18. “The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.” - John Muir

19. “Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest!” - John Muir

20. “Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods.” - John Muir

21. “Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.” - John Muir

22. “In the woods is perpetual youth.” - John Muir

23. “Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.” - John Muir

24. “People are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home, that wilderness is a necessity.” - John Muir

25. “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

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