John Muir Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• I like to walk, touch living Mother Earth—bare feet best, and thrill every step. Used to envy happy reptiles that had advantage of so much body in contact with earth, bosom to bosom. [We] live with our heels as well as head and most of our pleasure comes in that way.

  John Muir

  Mother, Feet, Envy

  John Muir (1999). “To Yosemite and Beyond: Writings from the Years 1863-1875”

• We live with our heels as well as head and most of our pleasure comes in that way.

  John Muir

  Reptiles, Way, Pleasure

  John Muir (1999). “To Yosemite and Beyond: Writings from the Years 1863-1875”

• The body seems to feel beauty when exposed to it as it feels the campfire or sunshine, entering not by the eyes alone, but equally through all one's flesh like radiant heat, making a passionate ecstatic pleasure glow not explainable.

  John Muir

  Eye, Sunshine, Entering

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.228, Library of America

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