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Mountain Quotes by John Muir
- Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest!
- The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thoughts…
- How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this glorious starry firmament for a roof! In such places standing alone on…
- Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
- We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us. Our…
- Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts; and if people in general could…
- I never have held death in contempt, though in the course of my explorations I have oftentimes felt that to meet one's fate on a…
- Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest! Days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand…
- How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! To behold this alone is worth the pains of any excursion a thousand times over. The…
- I must return to the mountains-to Yosemite. I am told that the winter storms there will not be easily borne, but I am bewitched, enchanted,…
- But no temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life...as if into this one mountain…
- To lovers of the wild, these mountains are not a hundred miles away. Their spiritual power and the goodness of the sky make them near,…
- Doubly happy, however, is the man to whom lofty mountain tops are within reach.
- Fresh beauty opens one's eyes wherever it is really seen, but the very abundance and completeness of the common beauty that besets our steps prevents…
- Hiking. I don't like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains...the se mountains are our Holy Land, and we…
- Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen
- I’d rather be in the mountains thinking of God, than in church thinking about the mountains.
- Hiking - I don't like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains - not hike! Do you know the…
- Beside the grand history of the glaciers and their own, the mountain streams sing the history of every avalanche or earthquake and of snow, all…
- Of all the fire mountains which like beacons, once blazed along the Pacific Coast, Mount Rainier is the noblest.
More Mountain Quotes
- I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman
- Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur. — Matthew Arnold
- Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of… — Saint Augustine
- May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the… — Edward Abbey
- Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains. — Hosea Ballou
- If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always be keen… — Roger Bannister
- Something very significant appears to be happening in America. There is a dramatic shift in voter affinity toward the GOP, and it… — Bob Beauprez