The mountains are calling and I must go.
JOHN MUIRGo where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
More John Muir Quotes
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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Take me into the mountains.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
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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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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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