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Mountains Quotes by John Muir
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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,…
- 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…
- Of all the fire mountains which like beacons, once blazed along the Pacific Coast, Mount Rainier is the noblest.
- To myself, mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery; in them, and in the forms of inferior landscape that lead to…
- Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts . . .
- As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but Nature's sources never fail. Like a generous host, she offers her brimming…
- The mountains are fountains not only of rivers and fertile soil, but of men.
- 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…
- I am well again, I came to life in the cool winds and crystal waters of the mountains.
- 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.
- 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…
More Mountains Quotes
- Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman
- 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
- I love just how beautiful Vancouver is. I mean, everywhere you look it's just mountains and ocean. — Emma Bell
- Great things are done when men and mountains meet. — William Blake
- Some years ago I gave a concert in the mountains with snow all around, and that was much colder. — Andrea Bocelli
- It's not like Alaska isn't wilderness - it mostly is. But most Alaskans don't live in the wild. They live on the… — Tom Bodett
- Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this… — Bill Bradley
- If you drive to, say, Shenandoah National Park, or the Great Smoky Mountains, you'll get some appreciation for the scale and beauty… — Bill Bryson
- If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed,… — Maurice Chevalier
- Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything… — Henri Frederic Amiel