Source: John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations
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“Most people are on the world, not in it.”
Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir
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: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth & Letters to a Friend (Autobiography With Original Drawings): The Memoirs of the Naturalist, Environmental Philosopher and Early Advocate of Preservation of Wilderness, the Author of The Yosemite, Travels in Alaska, The Mountains of California & Steep Trails
“Keep in view the common good of the people for all time.”
Source: Our National Parks
“It is a fine thing to see people in hot earnest about anything.”
Source: JOHN MUIR’S CALIFORNIA COLLECTION: My First Summer in the Sierra, Picturesque California, The Mountains of California, The Yosemite & Our National Parks (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Writings and Wilderness Essays
“Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play.”
“Some people miss flesh as a drunkard misses his dram.”
Source: John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations
Source: John Muir: Spiritual Writings
Source: The Yosemite: John Muir's quest to preserve the wilderness
Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir
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
Source: Meditations of John Muir: Nature's Temple
Source: John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations
“I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.”
Source: John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings