How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
JOHN MUIRGo quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
More John Muir Quotes
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
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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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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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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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Going to the woods is going home.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
JOHN MUIR