We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
JOHN MUIRNature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
More John Muir Quotes
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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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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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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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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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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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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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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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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Going to the mountains is going home.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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