I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
JOHN MUIRThe mountains are calling and I must go.
More John Muir Quotes
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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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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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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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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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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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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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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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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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
JOHN MUIR