All JOHN MUIR Quotes about “Books”

“Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.”
“I have a low opinion of books: they are piles of stones set up to show coming travelers where other minds have been, or at best signal smokes to call attention.”
“A man, in his books, may be said to walk the earth a long time after he is gone.”
“Books are but steeping stones to show you where other minds have been.”
“I have a low opinion of books; they are but piles of stones set up to show coming travelers where other minds have been, or at best signal smokes to call attention. No amount of word-making will ever make a single soul to know these mountains. As well seek to warm the naked and frostbitten by lectures on caloric and pictures of flame. One day's exposure to mountains is better than cartloads of books.”
“One day's exposure to mountains is better than cartloads of books. See how willingly Nature poses herself upon photographers' plates. No earthly chemicals are so sensitive as those of the human soul.”

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