Quotations and Meditations of John Muir

Favorite Quotations - selected by Harold Wood
John Muir National Historic Site Quotes Page- Quotes arranged alphabetically by subject. (Offsite link)
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"Damming Hetch Hetchy" , excerpt from Muir's Unpublished Journals, c. 1913.
"Man's Place in the Universe" , originally published in Muir's A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf (1916)
"Mountain Thoughts" , written by John Muir during the 1870s, collected by Linnie Marsh Wolfe in John of the Mountains (1938).
A Parable of Sauntering by Albert W. Palmer - Including a conversation with John Muir showing how Muir hated "hiking" - both the word and the thing. (excerpted from The Mountain Trail and Its Message (1911) .
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