Going to the woods is going home.
JOHN MUIRClimb the mountains and get their good tidings.
More John Muir Quotes
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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
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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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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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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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What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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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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Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
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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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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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