Take me into the mountains.
JOHN MUIRNothing dollarable is safe.
More John Muir Quotes
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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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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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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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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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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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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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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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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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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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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
JOHN MUIR