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
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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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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Take me into the mountains.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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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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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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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
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