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
JOHN MUIRThere is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
More John Muir Quotes
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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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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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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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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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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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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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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Take me into the mountains.
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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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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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