Take me into the mountains.
JOHN MUIRHandle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
More John Muir Quotes
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
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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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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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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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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
JOHN MUIR