Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
JOHN MUIRClimb the mountains and get their good tidings.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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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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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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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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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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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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Going to the mountains is going home.
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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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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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Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
JOHN MUIR






