Source: The Mountains of California
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Famous John Muir Quotes
Source: John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings
Source: John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations
“Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest!”
Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays
“Most people are on the world, not in it.”
Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir
“I never saw a discontented tree.”
Source: John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir
“None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild.”
Source: John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations
Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir
“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
“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 clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir
“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Source: John Muir's Last Journey: South To The Amazon And East To Africa: Unpublished Journals And Selected Correspondence
Source: John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir
Source: Travels in Alaska
“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Source: John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir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
“Who wouldn't be a mountaineer! Up here all the world's prizes seem nothing”
Source: My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition
“Going to the mountains is going home.”
Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays
Source: THE ALASKA ACCOUNT of John Muir: Travels in Alaska, The Cruise of the Corwin, Stickeen & Alaska Days with John Muir (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs and Wilderness Essays from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, The Mountains of California, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Picturesque California, Steep Trails
Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays
“It may not be easy, life isn't easy, but dreams keep you alive.”