One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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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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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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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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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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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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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives 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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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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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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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 power of imagination makes us infinite.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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