We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
JOHN MUIRGo where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
More John Muir Quotes
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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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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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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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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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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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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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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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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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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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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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