How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
JOHN MUIRTo the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Going to the mountains is going home.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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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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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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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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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
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