Source: John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings
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“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
“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
“Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.”
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: My First Summer in the Sierra (With Original Drawings & Photographs): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches & Wilderness Studies
Source: John Muir’s Incredible Travel Memoirs: A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, My First Summer in the Sierra, The Mountains of California, Travels in Alaska, Steep Trails… (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs & Wilderness Studies from the Naturalist, Environmental Philosopher and Early Advocate of Preservation of Wilderness, the Author of The Yosemite and Picturesque California
Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays
“He had gone to the higher Sierras... [about Ralph Waldo Emerson's death]”
Source: THE YOSEMITE COLLECTION of John Muir (Illustrated): The Yosemite, Our National Parks, Features of the Proposed Yosemite National Park, A Rival of the Yosemite, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Yosemite Glaciers, Yosemite in Winter & Yosemite in Spring
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
Source: A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf (With Original Drawings & Photographs): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches & Wilderness Studies
Source: John Muir’s Incredible Travel Memoirs: A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, My First Summer in the Sierra, The Mountains of California, Travels in Alaska, Steep Trails… (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs & Wilderness Studies from the Naturalist, Environmental Philosopher and Early Advocate of Preservation of Wilderness, the Author of The Yosemite and Picturesque California
Source: My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition
Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir
“As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.”
Source: To Yosemite and Beyond: Writings from the Years 1863-1875
“The grand show is eternal It is always sunrise somewhere”
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
“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
“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
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
“The sun shines not on us but in us.”
Source: John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir
“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: A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf (With Original Drawings & Photographs): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches & Wilderness Studies
“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: To Yosemite and Beyond: Writings from the Years 1863-1875
“God never made an ugly landscape. All that sun shines on is beautiful, so long as it is wild.”
Source: John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations
Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays