John Muir Quotes About Creation

• The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts... Why should man value himself as more than a small part of the one great unit of creation?

  John Muir

  Humility, Men, Compassion

  Philip Hyde, John Muir (1992). “The range of light: photographs”, Gibbs Smith

• One 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

  Morning, Lakes, Rivers

  John Muir (2015). “John Muir’s Incredible Travel Memoirs: A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, My First Summer in the Sierra, The Mountains of California, Travels in Alaska, Steep Trails… (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs & Wilderness Studies from the Naturalist, Environmental Philosopher and Early Advocate of Preservation of Wilderness, the Author of The Yosemite and Picturesque California”, p.521, e-artnow

• There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.

  John Muir

  Nature, Flower, Power

  John Muir (2010). “The Wilderness Journeys”, Canongate Books

• How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!

  John Muir

  Selfish, Conceited, Rights

  John Muir (2010). “The Wilderness Journeys”, Canongate Books

• The last days of this glacial winter are not yet past; we live in 'creation's dawn.' The morning stars still sing together, and the world, though made, is still being made and becoming more beautiful every day.

  John Muir

  Bella, Mañana, Estrellas

  John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.72, Univ of Wisconsin Press

• I used to envy the father of our race, dwelling as he did in contact with the new-made fields and plants of Eden; but I do so no more, because I have discovered that I also live in "creation's dawn." The morning stars still sing together, and the world, not yet half made, becomes more beautiful every day.

  John Muir

  Belleza, Hermoso, Naturaleza

  John Muir, Richard Kauffman (1964). “Gentle wilderness: the Sierra Nevada”

• Who reports the works and ways of the clouds, those wondrous creations coming into being every day like freshly upheaved mountains?

  John Muir

  Clouds, Mountain, Way

  John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.322, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Every atom in creation may be said to be acquainted with and married to every other, but with universal union there is a division sufficient in degree for the purposes of the most intense individuality.

  John Muir

  Individuality, Degrees, Atoms

  John Muir (1997). “John Muir: Nature Writings”, p.603, Library of America

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