The mountains are calling and I must go.
JOHN MUIRThe world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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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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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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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
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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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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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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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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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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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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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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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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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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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