Take me into the mountains.
JOHN MUIRThe world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
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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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Wander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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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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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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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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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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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.
JOHN MUIR