John Muir Quotes about Memories

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These beautiful days ... do not exist as mere pictures - maps hung upon the walls of memory to brighten at times when touched by association or will ... They saturate themselves into every part of the body and live

These beautiful days ... do not exist as mere pictures - maps hung upon the walls of memory to brighten at times when touched by association or will ... They saturate themselves into every part of the body and live always.

John Muir

Beautiful, Wall, Memories

John Muir, Peter Browning (1988). “John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations”, p.16, Great West Books

Never while anything is left of me shall this... camp be forgotten. It has fairly grown into me, not merely as memory pictures, but as part and parcel of mind and body alike.

John Muir

Memories, Mind, Body

John Muir (2011). “My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition”, p.53, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Memories may escape the action of the will, may sleep a long time, but when stirred by the right influence, though that influence be light as a shadow, they flash into full stature and life with everything in place

John Muir

Memories, Sleep, Light

John Muir (1997). “John Muir: Nature Writings”, p.818, Library of America

We are in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us....How glorious a conversion, so complete and wholesome it is, scarce memory enough of old bondage days left as a standpoint to view it from! In this newness of life we seem to have been so always

John Muir

Memories, Views, Cells

John Muir, Peter Browning (1988). “John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations”, p.8, Great West Books

I have enjoyed the trees and scenery of Kentucky exceedingly. How shall I ever tell of the miles and miles of beauty that have been flowing into me in such measure? These lofty curving ranks of lobing, swelling hills, these concealed valleys of fathomless verdure, and these lordly trees with the nursing sunlight glancing in their leaves upon the outlines of the magnificent masses of shade embosomed among their wide branches-these are cut into my memory to go with me forever.

John Muir

Memories, Cutting, Nursing

John Muir, William Frederic Badè (1998). “A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Word lessons, in particular the wouldst couldst shouldst have loved kind, were kept up, with much warlike thrashing, until I had committed the whole of French, Latin, and English grammars to memory.

John Muir

Memories, Latin, English Grammar

John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). “John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings”, p.29, The Mountaineers Books