Take me into the mountains.
JOHN MUIRNight is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
More John Muir Quotes
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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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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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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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.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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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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