The Wild Muir Quotes

“Long, blue, spiky-edged shadows crept out across the snow-fields, while a rosy glow, at first scarce discernible, gradually deepened and suffused every mountain-top, flushing the glaciers and the harsh crags above them. This was the alpenglow, to me the most impressive of all the terrestrial manifestations of God. At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.”
― John Muir, The Wild Muir: Twenty-Two of John Muir's Greatest Adventures

“I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.”
― John Muir, The Wild Muir: Twenty-Two of John Muir's Greatest Adventures

“I was awakened by a tremendous earthquake, and though I hadn ever before enjoyed a storm of this sort, the strange thrilling motion could not be mistaken, and I ran out of my cabin, both glad and frightened, shouting, "A noble earthquake! A noble earthquake" feeling sure I was going to learn something.”
― John Muir, The Wild Muir: Twenty-Two of John Muir's Greatest Adventures

“Over the summit, I saw the so-called Mono desert lying dreamily silent in the thick, purple light -- a desert of heavy sun-glare beheld from a desert of ice-burnished granite.”
― John Muir, The Wild Muir: Twenty-Two of John Muir's Greatest Adventures

“Once long ago in Wisconsin I saw the heavens draped in rich purple auroral clouds fringed and folded in most magnificent forms; but in this glory of light, so pure, so bright, so enthusiastic in motion, there was nothing in the least cloudlike.”
― Lee Stetson, The Wild Muir: Twenty-Two of John Muir's Greatest Adventures

“God’s holy light making all divine.”
― Lee Stetson, The Wild Muir: Twenty-Two of John Muir's Greatest Adventures

“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.”
― Lee Stetson, The Wild Muir: Twenty-Two of John Muir's Greatest Adventures