We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
JOHN MUIRGoing to the woods is going home.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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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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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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Wander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
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Take me into the mountains.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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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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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
JOHN MUIR






