The mountains are calling and I must go.
JOHN MUIRTherefore all childish fear must be put away.
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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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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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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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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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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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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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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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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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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