Going to the mountains is going home.
JOHN MUIRFew places in this world are more dangerous than home.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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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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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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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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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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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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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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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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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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