Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
JOHN MUIRClimb the mountains and get their good tidings.
JOHN MUIRThere is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
JOHN MUIRAt 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 MUIRThe world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
JOHN MUIROn no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
JOHN MUIROne must labor for beauty as for bread.
JOHN MUIROnly 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 MUIRWildness is a necessity.
JOHN MUIRRaindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
JOHN MUIRThere is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
JOHN MUIRSpring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
JOHN MUIRIt is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
JOHN MUIRAnyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
JOHN MUIRGo where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
JOHN MUIRWho wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
JOHN MUIRIn our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
JOHN MUIR