Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
JOHN MUIRWe are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
More John Muir Quotes
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
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The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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Take me into the mountains.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
JOHN MUIR