Going to the mountains is going home.
JOHN MUIRWhat 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!
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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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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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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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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Going to the woods is going home.
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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
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