Take me into the mountains.
JOHN MUIRNature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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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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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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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
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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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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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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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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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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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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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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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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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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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