As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
JOHN MUIRMountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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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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Wildness is a necessity.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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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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The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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Take me into the mountains.
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