Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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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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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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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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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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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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
JOHN MUIR