The mountains are calling and I must go.
JOHN MUIRThe deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
More John Muir Quotes
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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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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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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Wander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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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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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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