I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
JOHN MUIRThousands 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
More John Muir Quotes
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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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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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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