The mountains are calling and I must go.
JOHN MUIRWe were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
More John Muir Quotes
-
-
On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
JOHN MUIR -
One must labor for beauty as for bread.
JOHN MUIR -
In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
JOHN MUIR -
In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
JOHN MUIR -
Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
JOHN MUIR -
All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
JOHN MUIR -
Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
JOHN MUIR -
In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
JOHN MUIR -
Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
JOHN MUIR -
I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
JOHN MUIR -
There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
JOHN MUIR -
Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
JOHN MUIR -
Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
JOHN MUIR -
Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
JOHN MUIR -
Nothing truly wild is unclean.
JOHN MUIR