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Best Mountain Quotes by John Muir
- Wherever we go in the mountains, we find more than we seek.
- Who reports the works and ways of the clouds, those wondrous creations coming into being every day like freshly upheaved mountains?
- Nature as a poet, an enthusiastic workingman, becomes more and more visible the farther and higher we go; for the mountains are fountains – beginning…
- No words will ever describe the exquisite beauty and charm of this mountain park – Nature’s landscape garden at once tenderly beautiful and sublime. No…
- Galen Clark was the best mountaineer I ever met, and one of the kindest and most amiable of all my mountain friends.
- ...Good luck and Good work for the happy mountain raindrops, each one of them a high waterfall in itself, descending from the cliffs and hollows…
- I am well again, I came to life in the cool winds and crystal waters of the mountains.
- What wonders lie in every mountain day!
- I...am always glad to touch the living rock again and dip my hand in the high mountain air.
- We are in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us....How glorious a…
- Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
- Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your…
- The mountains are calling and I must go.
- How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
- Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own…
- Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity...
- One day's exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
- Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods…
- Going to the mountains is going home.
- ...full of God's thoughts, a place of peace and safety amid the most exalted grandeur and enthusiastic action, a new song, a place of beginnings…
- Long, blue, spiky-edged shadows crept out across the snow-fields, while a rosy glow, at first scarce discernible, gradually deepened and suffused every mountain-top, flushing the…
- One learns that the world, though made, is yet being made; that this is still the morning of creation; that mountains long conceived are now…
- 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…
- These temple destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism, seem to have a perfect contempt for Nature, and, instead of lifting their eyes to the God of…
- I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I…
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- 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
- Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor… — Joseph Addison
- I love just how beautiful Vancouver is. I mean, everywhere you look it's just mountains and ocean. — Emma Bell
- Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed… — John Berger
- Great things are done when men and mountains meet. — William Blake