Take me into the mountains.
JOHN MUIROnly by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
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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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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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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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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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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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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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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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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