Nothing dollarable is safe.
JOHN MUIRWalk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
More John Muir Quotes
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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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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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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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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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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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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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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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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Wildness is a necessity.
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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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I never saw a discontented tree.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
JOHN MUIR