Going to the mountains is going home.
JOHN MUIRIn the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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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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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.
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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Take me into the mountains.
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What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
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I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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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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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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