I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
JOHN MUIRIt 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.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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How glorious a greeting the sun gives 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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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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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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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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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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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
JOHN MUIR






