Nothing truly wild is unclean.
JOHN MUIRNothing truly wild is unclean.
JOHN MUIROf all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
JOHN MUIRThis time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
JOHN MUIRAnyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
JOHN MUIREvery hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
JOHN MUIRYet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
JOHN MUIRWander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
JOHN MUIROne day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
JOHN MUIRIn drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
JOHN MUIRI care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
JOHN MUIRAnother glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
JOHN MUIRI never saw a discontented tree.
JOHN MUIRClimb the mountains and get their good tidings.
JOHN MUIRSo also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
JOHN MUIRMountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
JOHN MUIRGoing to the mountains is going home.
JOHN MUIR