Quotations and Meditations of John Muir

Favorite Quotations - selected by Harold Wood
John Muir Misquoted - There are an increasing number of misquotes attributed to John Muir widely circulated on the Internet and even in published books. Learn how to tell the difference.
John Muir's Stance Against Anthropocentrism, Muir's thoughts compiled by Bron Taylor (off-site link)
"Damming Hetch Hetchy" , excerpt from Muir's Unpublished Journals, c. 1913.
"Man's Place in the Universe" , originally published in Muir's A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf (1916)
"Mountain Thoughts" , written by John Muir during the 1870s, collected by Linnie Marsh Wolfe in John of the Mountains (1938).
A Parable of Sauntering by Albert W. Palmer - Including a conversation with John Muir showing how Muir hated "hiking" - both the word and the thing. (excerpted from The Mountain Trail and Its Message (1911) .
Muir Quotes on Death (PDF) Through his many wilderness adventures, Muir had experiences around death which led him to an inner peace with death that is rare today. (off-site link)
Wild Wool by John Muir (1875) - Muir's argument that he has "never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself," using wild vs. domestic sheep as a primary example.
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