John Muir

1838–1914 · Scottish-American naturalist

Topics: complexity, life

• When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

  — John Muir

• 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, brought to light by the glaciers, channels traced for coming rivers, basins hollowed for lakes.

  — John Muir