As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
JOHN MUIRThe mountains are calling and I must go.
More John Muir Quotes
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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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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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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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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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.
JOHN MUIR






