How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
JOHN MUIRThe mountains are calling and I must go.
More John Muir Quotes
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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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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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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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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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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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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