All JOHN MUIR Quotes about “Adventure”

“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.”
“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.”
“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 freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.”
“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
“The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.”
“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 must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news”
“I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.”
“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.”
“This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.”
“Going to the mountains is going home.”
“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.”
“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 - mountain dwellers who have grown strong there with the forest trees in Nature's workshops.”
“Who wouldn't be a mountaineer! Up here all the world's prizes seem nothing”
“One day's exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.”
“None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild.”
“I never saw a discontented tree.”
“Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action.”
“Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.”
“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.”
“How many hearts with warm, red blood in them are beating under cover of the woods, and how many teeth and eyes are shining? A multitude of animal people, intimately related to us, but of whose lives we know almost nothing, are as busy about their own affairs as we are about ours.”
“Most people are on the world, not in it.”
“Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest!”
“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 anyhow - inside.”

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