Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
JOHN MUIRMost people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
More John Muir Quotes
-
-
To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
JOHN MUIR -
And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
JOHN MUIR -
Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
JOHN MUIR -
At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
JOHN MUIR -
The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
JOHN MUIR -
Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
JOHN MUIR -
There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
JOHN MUIR -
The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
JOHN MUIR -
But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
JOHN MUIR -
The mountains are calling and I must go.
JOHN MUIR -
Learn to live like the wild animals
JOHN MUIR -
Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
JOHN MUIR -
What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
JOHN MUIR -
Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
JOHN MUIR -
One must labor for beauty as for bread.
JOHN MUIR