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
JOHN MUIRWe are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
More John Muir Quotes
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The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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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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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on 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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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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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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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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