Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
JOHN MUIRHidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
More John Muir Quotes
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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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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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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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 a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
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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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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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