The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
JOHN MUIRThe mountains are calling and I must go.
More John Muir Quotes
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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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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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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Take me into the mountains.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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