Source: John Muir: Spiritual Writings
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“Any fool can destroy trees, they cannot run away.”
Source: JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more
Source: To Yosemite and Beyond: Writings from the Years 1863-1875
Source: John Muir's Last Journey: South To The Amazon And East To Africa: Unpublished Journals And Selected Correspondence
“A little pure wildness is the one great present want, both of men and sheep.”
Source: Wilderness Essays
“In this silent, serene wilderness the weary can gain a heart-bath in perfect peace.”
Source: JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more
Source: The High Sierra of California
Source: Travels in Alaska
Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays
“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.”
Source: STEEP TRAILS: California - Utah - Nevada - Washington - Oregon - The Grand Canyon: Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Essays and Wilderness Studies from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf & Picturesque California
Source: John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings
“The mountains are calling and I must go.”
Source: John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings
“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.”
Source: My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition
“The power of imagination makes us infinite.”
Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir
“How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!”
Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays
“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir
Source: My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition
“To the lover of pure wildness Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.”
Source: STEEP TRAILS: California - Utah - Nevada - Washington - Oregon - The Grand Canyon: Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Essays and Wilderness Studies from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf & Picturesque California
Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir
Source: The Wilderness Journeys
Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir
Source: The Yosemite: John Muir's quest to preserve the wilderness
“The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.”
Source: John Muir's Last Journey: South To The Amazon And East To Africa: Unpublished Journals And Selected Correspondence
“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”
Source: John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir
Source: The Wilderness Journeys
“One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.”
Source: JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more
Source: John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings
Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir
Source: Travels in Alaska
“The sun shines not on us but in us.”
Source: John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir
“Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.”
“Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.”
Source: John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations
Source: My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition
“One day's exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.”
Source: John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir
Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir
Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays
“Who wouldn't be a mountaineer! Up here all the world's prizes seem nothing”
Source: My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition
“In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Muir (Illustrated)
Source: A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf (With Original Drawings & Photographs): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches & Wilderness Studies