To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
JOHN MUIRAt 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.
More John Muir Quotes
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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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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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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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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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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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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