Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
JOHN MUIRThis time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
More John Muir Quotes
-
-
Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
JOHN MUIR -
Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
JOHN MUIR -
Take me into the mountains.
JOHN MUIR -
We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
JOHN MUIR -
Nothing truly wild is unclean.
JOHN MUIR -
As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
JOHN MUIR -
The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
JOHN MUIR -
Going to the mountains is going home.
JOHN MUIR -
Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
JOHN MUIR -
But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
JOHN MUIR -
One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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 -
Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
JOHN MUIR -
We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
JOHN MUIR -
Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
JOHN MUIR -
No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
JOHN MUIR -
Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
JOHN MUIR -
Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
JOHN MUIR -
Learn to live like the wild animals
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 galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
JOHN MUIR -
In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
JOHN MUIR -
Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
JOHN MUIR -
Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
JOHN MUIR -
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
JOHN MUIR