The mountains are calling and I must go.
JOHN MUIRClimb the mountains and get their good tidings.
More John Muir Quotes
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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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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The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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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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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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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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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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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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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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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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