Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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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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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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
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Take me into the mountains.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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