Going to the mountains is going home.
JOHN MUIRAnd into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
More John Muir Quotes
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I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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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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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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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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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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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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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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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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