JOHN MUIR ALASKA QUOTES

“The mountains are calling and I must go.”

“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”

“In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.”

“Alaska is calling and I must go.”

“The power of imagination makes us infinite.”

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”

“The sun shines not on us but in us.”

“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.”

“The long, dark, Alaska nights make your stars seem close enough to touch.”

“Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.”

“The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.”

“The Universe is wider than our views of it.”

“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.” QUOTES FROM CANDY

“The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.”

“In every out-thrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.”

“The ice was here, the ice was there, the ice was all around.”

“Avalanches are just snowflakes having a nervous breakdown.”

“I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.”

“Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of autumn.”

“The wilderness is a tonic for the oppressed.”

“Tug on anything at all and you’ll find it connected to everything else in the universe.”

“Alaska has long been a land of wonders; it is still a land of wonders.”

“The most beautiful scenery in the world is the human soul when it is really alive.”

“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 and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains.”