I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
JOHN MUIRGoing to the mountains is going home.
More John Muir Quotes
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Wildness is a necessity.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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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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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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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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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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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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