One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
JOHN MUIRClimb the mountains and get their good tidings.
More John Muir Quotes
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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