One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
JOHN MUIRGoing to the mountains is going home.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
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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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As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
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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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There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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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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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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