Take me into the mountains.
JOHN MUIRBetween every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
More John Muir Quotes
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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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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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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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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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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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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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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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
JOHN MUIR