John Muir Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.

  John Muir

  Flower, Book, Doe

• One day's exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.

  John Muir

  Book, Adventure, One Day

  John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.95, Univ of Wisconsin Press

• 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.

  John Muir

  Book, Mind, Attention

  John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.94, Univ of Wisconsin Press

• A man, in his books, may be said to walk the earth a long time after he is gone.

  John Muir

  Book, Science, Men

• 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.

  John Muir

  Book, Flames, Soul

  John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• 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.

  John Muir

  Book, Soul, One Day

  John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Books are but stepping stones to show you where other minds have been.

  John Muir

  Book, Mind, Stones

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