Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God's mountains.
John MuirI 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.
John MuirWhen we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
John MuirOne learns that the world, though made, is yet being made; that this is still the morning of creation; that mountains long conceived are now being born, channels traced for coming rivers, basins hollowed for lakes.
John Muir