Take me into the mountains.
JOHN MUIRTherefore all childish fear must be put away.
More John Muir Quotes
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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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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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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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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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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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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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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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
JOHN MUIR