How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
JOHN MUIRGoing to the mountains is going home.
More John Muir Quotes
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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
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Take me into the mountains.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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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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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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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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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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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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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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