"A man, in his books, may be said……" — John Muir

"A man, in his books, may be said to walk the earth a long time after he is gone."

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273 Quotes by John Muir

John Muir has 273 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

It may not be easy, life isn't easy, but dreams keep you alive.
What is worthwhile in life? I think it is worth living and dreaming. If you don't you may be dead…
Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other…
Look! Nature is overflowing with the grandeur of God!
These beautiful days ... do not exist as mere pictures - maps hung upon the walls of memory to brighten…
I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any…
We all travel the milky way together, trees and men; but it never occurred to me until this storm-day, while…
The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts... Why…
When we try to pick out anything by itself we find it hitched to everything else in the universe ...…
Bears are made of the same dust as we, and they breathe the same winds and drink of the same…
How many hearts with warm, red blood in them are beating under cover of the woods, and how many teeth…
Tell me what you will of the benefactions of city civilization, of the sweet security of streets-all as part of…

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More Book Quotes

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High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
I was never really a comic-book fanatic. — J. J. Abrams
When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you… — Julian Assange
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to… — Paul Auster
I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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