Quote#Nature
Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to…
Quote byJohn Muir · 1838–1914
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: My First Summer in the Sierra, 1869, Terry Gifford, EWDB, page 212.
English (original)
Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest! Days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God. Nevermore, however weary, should one faint by the way who gains the blessings of one mountain day; whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.
— John Muir
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