How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
JOHN MUIRGoing to the mountains is going home.
More John Muir Quotes
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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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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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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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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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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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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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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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Learn to live like the wild animals
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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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.
JOHN MUIR