Take me into the mountains.
JOHN MUIRA part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
More John Muir Quotes
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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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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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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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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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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It 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.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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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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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
JOHN MUIR