Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
JOHN MUIRSpring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
More John Muir Quotes
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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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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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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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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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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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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It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
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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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Wildness is a necessity.
JOHN MUIR